Airship One - A Modern Zeppelin by ThingHuxter

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

I am one of those romantics who thinks he was robbed of something magnificent when airships went out of service in the late 1930s after the Hindenburg exploded.
Think about it. Until then, the Graf Zeppelin made 590 trips, over 1 million miles, many of which were from Europe to South America, and very safely.
As a fan of rigid-body airships, I decided to use my 3D printer to make a whole line of airships of various eras.
Airship One is the first modern airship of my line. It has a retro look to the body and main vertical stabilization fins, but uses several modern features such as smaller elevators at the front and back which can tilt the ship quickly.
Alongside this, we have four Dyson-like engines. There are no exposed propellors. The engines are inside, and air intakes are positioned just to the front of the engine housings. These engines rotate for a Vertical Take Off and Landing ability that the old airships never had because the engine cars were so heavy and cumbersom they could not easily be rotated.
This ship comes in main body sections. There are pegs to connect the body sections. The body is modeled to allow a peg to connect the engines, allowing them to rotate once glued.
The elevators do not rotate. You'll have to pretend.
The display stand has spaces for the ship's name, but I also include a plain display stand that you can use if you don't want to display the name. After all, "Airship One" is hardly an exotic, exciting name.
(Hey, tell you what. If you leave name suggestions in the comments, and I'll officiall name it, choosing my favorite suggestion.)
It also comes with a mooring mast that looks a bit like the spire of the Empire State Building, which was actually designed to be a docking station for real dirigibles, back in the 1930s. It was never used in that capacity, but that's why it's there.
Note:
You will need 3 of the peg files. Each one prints four pegs.
You will need 4 of the engines, and 4 of the engine pegs.
You will only need one of the two landing gear pieces each, but I had to export them in pairs otherwise my buggy STL exporter enlarges them for no good reason.
You will need 2 of the front elevators, and 2 of the rear elevators.
Please enjoy!