Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Jules Verne and SciFi Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:20:37 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10afh2l$3hcc0$1@dont-email.me> <10ag0tf$3l3a7$1@dont-email.me> <10agpn4$3qpp8$2@dont-email.me> <10ah9i6$3v8gp$1@dont-email.me> <10ai0bj$599f$1@dont-email.me> <7ZYzQ.83$Qzga.44@fx10.ams1> <87wm5qckd0.fsf@parhasard.net> <10atv47$2v2db$1@dont-email.me> <10av7su$3a5lo$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net neKXNNRLxy14Du7Po8VK0wzs14HxeXzEQ3xfUzzYUwj7yQlkbu X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:+SovviggSB/RM4HYqj93/XX95jI= sha256:gfCigNJ78oCgE4W/LmFlKSaEbYu43f0xePIDZ8xv7G4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75204 On 2025-09-25 01:58, rbowman wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:57:25 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> From the science fiction point of view 'Five Weeks in a Balloon' is a >> disaster. > > There is a lot of hand waving in 'Robur' too. There are two sets of > props, one for the vertical lift and one for the forward motion. > > I thought there was a design in the '20s like that but I all I can find > are autogyros where the rotor isn't driven and a Focke-Wulf design but > wiki says the horizontal axis prop wasn't for propulsion. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_61 In the thick books I have of the Verne collection, there were descriptions of actual dirigibles, some by Santos Dumont, if I recall correctly. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;