Re: Re: Mylar balloons

From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 20:38:03 -0400

Since they are custom made maybe they can use lighter Mylar?
On May 1, 2014 5:26 PM, <linardic_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Gentlemen Regarding the mylar baloons from source in discussion. I know
> dan before he and emilia were a company at the very begining of the story!
> The advertizing blimps are great he has come up with many novel great ideas
> for them. Back around 2002 i think if i remember correctly i asked dan to
> build me a baloon. We calculated the sizes and came up with a baloon! He
> did an awsome bautifull job building it. Compared to my bob bailey baloon
> it hold gas just as well and is made of much heavier mylar than bobs
> baloon. This causes it to be great to bang at girders with it will not
> puncture however for steering over 100 feet useless according to my
> experience as it has a lot of inertia and very slow to start moving and
> hard to stop due to jts mass. Also uses more gas to fill to counteract the
> weight of heavier mylar than bailey or harlan use. Dan does a great job of
> building the blimp envelopes though his craftmanship is unbeateble.
> Incidentally some of his early prototypes of blimps were flown at our
> indoor site!!!!!!
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