silent-runner

Even after a 100 years Zeppelins are inspiring aircrafts and carry an unbroken fascination. Everyone who has ever seen an airship slowly raising and silently crossing the skies, can imagine how much potential this extremely efficient way of flying bears.
In this project we connect the historical idea of “lighter-than-air” flying with the most modern materials and electronics to reach performance that was never achieved before.
The silent_runner airship is … Mehr anzeigen

The aim of this campaign is to finance the development of the silent_runner kit. With your support we can bring the design to perfection, optimize the production processes and can make it way cheaper.
The silent_runner is aimed towards RC hobbyists. At the same time the airship is capable to replace Copters as it flies stable and quiet which makes it ideal for videos and photography, even indoors. Of cause you can also fly it in trade fairs or malls. The op… Mehr anzeigen

We are tinkering for more than 3 years with the silent_runner and had good fun with the development, test flights and some real applications. In the meantime so many prototypes have flown on airship regattas and maker faires, that we think the airship is ready for operation. Whoever enjoys this almost vanished way of flying, can support our project and hopefully very soon see his own ship raising to the skies.
Current performance data of the silent_runner i… Mehr anzeigen

The fundings of this campaign will directly go towards the production of the silent_runner kits. Our workshop will be complemented with a few machines that allow us, to manufacture quickly and precise the necessary parts. We further can mass-buy ultra-light weight components directly or let them produce towards our specifications. We also try to find a manufacturer that can make the high quality envelope of the airship in large numbers for a good price.

The Windreiter are a student project from Germany and design, construct and test since 2007 innovative airship designs. We have collected quite some experience with camera and racing airships which gathers now in the development of the silent_runner.
The core of the team are:
André Sobotta, Clemens Mayer, Thomas and Andreas Burkart

But we are supported by lots of friends and helpers which are too many to call all of them. But here at least a few:
Hannes, Mart… Mehr anzeigen