Talk:Dirigible

Er... what means "  somewhat ridged  "? There are rigid airships, semi-rigid airships and blimps, but there is no    somewhat ridged  airships!

The Grik airships described as rigid, but it contradict the data that Grik's workers are incapable of percise operations. The rigid-hulled airships need great accuracy in construction and, actually, pretty hard to build. Maybe they are semi-rigid types, and named "Zeppelins" only as a nickname?

Fonzeppelin (talk) 17:00, July 31, 2015 (UTC)

Taylor Anderson's discussion on Grik Airships and altitudes Grik and Lemurians can fly without oxygen:

August 05, 2015 Taylor Amdreson wrote:

Now I’m pulling my chin whiskers out. At least all the ones with split hairs!

P.S. One therminology note: //within a bamboo-framed Grik zep.// Actually, you ships are Schutte-Lanz type. The Zeppelins was always metal-frame. The wooden-frame rigid airships was made by the Schutte-Lanz company.

Ack! I know that. You know that. Most of the guys on this site know that—-but “zeppelin” was synonymous with “rigid airship” virtually from the time the first one flew. It certainly was by anyone in the story. Nobody would have screamed “the Shutes are coming!” (One ‘t,’ by the way). Therefore, in the interests of clarity, I call them what the characters call them.

And Bill is right. My grandmother worked at Consolidated during the war, literally “Ruth the Riveter.” (Her name was Ruth, before you correct me for not saying “Rosie”). She knew nothing about how to design, assemble, or fly a B-24 Liberator. But like thousands of other men and women on the homefront, thrust into doing something she’d never done, she riveted tail sections together hour after hour, day after day, year after year, and I doubt many B-24s fell out of the sky because that was the only part of the process she knew. My grandmother was very intelligent, far smarter than ANY Grik. But it has been revealed that even Uul have the CAPACITY for intelligence time and again. Even when discussing the airship program! Again, as described during the construction of the Indiamen, they focus on one thing, for the most part. Hij supervise the assembly. (Maybe you missed the part about ‘hundreds of times?’ A squad of Uul could certainly manhandle one large thing up to another and put it in the slot designated for it. Finally, I’m not sure where you keep getting this 15000 foot ceiling? If it’s in the books, it was a typo (possibly inserted by an editor. I sure hope not globally!). If I recall, the only Grik ZEPS that made it that high wound up falling into the sea in pieces. Grik would need oxygen at 15000 feet. Lemurians have trouble with hypoxia at anything much over 8 or 9 for any length of time. (One of the reasons Ben never let Tikker fly the PBY, although they didn’t know it at the time. Oops, maybe a spoiler. . .)

The above from: http://www.taylorandersonauthor.com/blog/discussions/technical-discussions/  Pokermind (talk) 03:06, August 15, 2015 (UTC)