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A vacuum airship, also known as a vacuum balloon, is a hypothetical airship that is evacuated rather than filled with a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium. First proposed by Italian Jesuit priest Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670, [ 1 ] the vacuum balloon would be the ultimate expression of lifting power per volume displaced.
She is one of three similar-looking girls who the crew on the Hagoromo airship. She has red eyes and wears a matching tie. Betti (ベティ) Voiced by: Aoi Koga [4] She is one of three similar-looking girls who the crew on the Hagoromo airship. She has yellow eyes and wears a matching tie. Cindi (シンディ) Voiced by: Natsumi Kawaida [4]
The Ascender airship would operate between the ground and the Dark Sky Station at 140,000 feet (ca. 42,672 m). A long, V-shaped planform with an airfoil profile would provide aerodynamic lift to supplement the airship's inherent buoyancy, with the craft driven by propellers designed to operate in a near vacuum. The Ascender would be larger than ...
Princess of Pejite and Asbel's twin sister. Dies shortly after being rescued by Nausicaä from a wrecked Pejite airship that escaped Kushana's invasion in the manga; in the anime, it's a Torumekian airship on which she was imprisoned. Voice cast: Miina Tominaga (Japanese), Emily Bauer (English, 2005)
City in the Sky, the seventh dungeon level of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Skyloft, the town in which The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword begins. The numerous sky islands in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption features SkyTown, a research facility suspended within the atmosphere of a gas giant named ...
Conan reminisces to Doctor Agasa about the time Ran thought an airship was an unidentified flying object and asks him to keep it a secret. A waiter overhears Conan in the shadows. Conan's group is given a tour of the airship; Ran diverges from the group to get a better look at Lady Sky.
Francesco Lana de Terzi's design for a flying boat, 1670 Francesco Lana de Terzi's flying boat concept c.1670. In the year 1670, Francesco Lana de Terzi published a book titled Prodromo, including a chapter titled saggio di alcune invenzioni nuove premesso all'arte maestra ("Essay on new inventions premised on the master art"), which contained the description of a “flying ship”.
Sora no Manimani (宙のまにまに, lit. "At the Mercy of the Sky") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mami Kashiwabara. The manga was serialized between the November 2005 and September 2011 issues of Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon manga magazine, and was collected into 10 tankōbon volumes.