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Air Genie is a spherical,
full-color video-surfaced,
helium airship. It flys silently
through the sky propelled and
controlled by computerized
electric prop rings . Digital
video cameras arrayed over
its surface enable Air Genie to
instantly display it's surroundings.
Air Genie is an art and music ball,
a fountain of motion pictures.
Piloted and operated by visual
and musicial artists. Air Genie
interacts consciously with it's
environment, presenting the best
new sounds and visions. When Air
Genie lands in a park; instant dance
party theater-in-the-round , brilliant
imagery and crystal clear sound.
Features:
-bright,
high-resolution daytime visibility
-quiet operating, non-polluting power generation and propulsion system
-agile computerized propulsion-control system
-telescoping retractable landing legs with motorized wheels
-retractable pilot's cabin with digital control screens
-multimedia control room
-30 controllable digital video cameras arrayed over globe's surface
-powerful sound system ring of speakers microphones
-advanced GPS , radar, radio satellite transceiver systems...
-stereoscopic 3D capability, tv & radio broadcast ability
-broadband linked to internet, radio, television
-search beacons, strobes, lasers, cloud maker...
-galley, lavatory, etc.
Typical
crew:
pilot,
engineer, artist, musician
Specifications of Air Genie 1
: (Patents Pending)
-type of airship hybrid helium blimp
-shape spherical diameter 35 meters ( 115 feet )
-volume 22,449 cubic meters ( 792,764 cu. ft.)
-surface area 3848 square meters (41,404 sq. ft.)
-surface material composite membrane / honeycomb
-total weight of airship 20 metric tons
-video system RGB LEDs, red,blue&green light emiting diodes
-total number of diodes 61.5 million
-total number of pixels 2 million number of pixels /sq. m 16,000
-number of LEDs/pixel 31
-peak power output 423 kW
-power
1,162 kW turbo generator array (alternatively fuelcells)
-fuel eg. sunflower oil, hydrogen
-propulsion two 240 unit reversible ac motor propeller rings
-cruise speed 36 km/hr.