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Title
Steampunk Airship Captain
Artist
Edward Fielding
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The brave Steampunk Dirigible Captain with safety goggles and flight suit. A steampunk looking man wearing welders goggles, gloves and a flight suit.
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An airship or dirigible is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust mechanisms. Unlike aircraft that use aerodynamics, such as fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters that produce lift by moving an airfoil through the air, aerostatic aircraft stay aloft by having a large "envelope" filled with a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding air. In early dirigibles, the lifting gas used was hydrogen, despite widespread concern due to its flammability.
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Photography by Edward M. Fielding
The alternative, helium, is nonflammable, but rare in most parts of the world. Large amounts of it were discovered in the United States. Thus, for a while, helium was rarely used for airships outside the United States
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November 27th, 2013
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