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Writer's pictureDr. Daniel Wibbing

A Tiny Racing Blimp Wins Big! 🏆

Our researcher, Mark Summers, designed a tiny airship to compete in this year's Airship Regatta at Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAs) 2024 in Mumbai, India.


Mark came in second, just 2 seconds behind returning champion Raman Verma.


This is footage of our best round of timed laps around the course. 


There is a penalty for hitting the walls, which hurt the result in the first round. So in this round we took it slow and easy. The walls were still hit once, but overall this was our best time. 


We got a substantial bonus for the unusually small size of our airship, at about 1 meter long and 0.25 meters wide. 


It was a great event, and it was great to see many new faces in addition to a few old ones. Everyone always helps each other out, and we try to get as many airships flying as possible. 27 teams competed this year, which is a great showing!



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