Flying Around the World in under 80 Days(pinchito.es)
52 points by alexfernandez 3 days ago | 15 comments
- lukeinator42 3 hours agoThis is an interesting article from a couple of days ago about tracking diy balloons long distance: https://spectrum.ieee.org/explore-stratosphere-diy-pico-ball.... Given the tracker can be built for $14 it might be worth it to test a version with just the custom hydrogen enclosure and tracker and see how far it gets.[-]
- lukeinator42 2 hours agoI also found this blog: https://www.theastroimager.com/picoballoning/pico-ballooning.... His balloon JR14 flew for 507 days and made 6 laps of the earth which is pretty wild.
- bigiain 1 day agoSpeaking of Jules Vern and Round The World.
A new sailing record was set recently, which didn't _quite_ beat 40 days - it took them 40 days and almost 11 hours.
If you've ever seen a SailGP boat flying up out of the water on their hydrofoils and doing 100kmh - imagine a 32m long 26m wide ocean going trimaran doing the same thing in a non stop circumnavigation of the globe. I think they _averaged_ 27knots or 50kmh!
If you _haven't_ seen the SailGP boats and are curious, here's somewhere to start: https://youtu.be/BQWOoP-Iwn8
[-]- netsharc 8 hours agoAnd when the world was still flooded with money and the music was awesome (so 2004), Jeremy Clarkson did a series about inventions, one of them being the jet plane, and he flew commercial around the world in 120 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8D_UzMhjH8
- chrisweekly 5 hours agoThanks for sharing!
- moss_dog 1 day agoDelightful read, thanks for sharing. The website design is very pleasant, too!
Also FYI the link to "Aves Æternæ" is broken.
[-]- alexfernandez 23 hours agoCorrected now, thanks! So grateful for the compliments. For the record, the correct link is: https://pinchito.es/2024/aves-aeternae.
- Trufa 6 hours agoCan someone give me some notes on the legality of this?[-]
- simonebrunozzi 3 hours agoPerhaps next time read the whole article?
> Finally, can it be flown legally? Most of the trajectory can pass over the oceans, but skipping land completely would take too much of a detour, and likely be incompatible with prevailing winds. Although the political climate may be hostile, it is still legal to fly civil craft over other countries.
[-]- fh973 1 hour agoSorry, but that's just ignorance. It's an UAV, it's not registered, has no type certificate. He doesn't even seem to be aware of airspaces.
So no, it's not legal in many ways.
- alexfernandez 3 days agoProject to Circumnavigate using an Autonomous Airship Drone[-]
- bryanrasmussen 1 day agoPTCUAAAD. As acronyms go: too Lovecraftian I fear.
PCAAD: Too Microsoftie.
[-]- awesome_dude 1 day agoPiCArD?
- Piloted Intelligent Circumnavigation Airship for Research and Development
- Prototype Integrated Control Autonomous Route Drone
- Programmable Intelligent Circumnavigation Aeronautical Remote Device
- Piloted Intelligent Craft: Autonomous Route, Data-driven
- Primary Intelligence Control And Route Determination
- Precision Integrated Circumnavigation And Remote Deployment
[-]- alexfernandez 21 hours agoI'm loving "Project for Intelligent Circumnavigation Airship Research Drone" myself.
- cyberax 3 hours agoHydrogen containment: you might want to look at topping up hydrogen along the way. Have a small compartment inside the gas bag with lithium shavings and a small servo that can release water into this compartment.
You'll get about 1/15-th of the lithium+water mass as hydrogen. So if you want to replenish 1 m^3 of hydrogen at STP (or around 1/8-th of the gas bag volume), you'll need around 600 grams of reagents.