aviation

Kaimana · #1 06-27-2002, 05:45 PM

Hey dont you think that Blimp that Lulu arrived in was cool. Is that blimp owned by the Vykkers because the design looks some what similar to Vykkers labs. Anybody know what other aviation vehicles fly the sky's of Oddworld.

***Wil*** · #2 06-27-2002, 05:53 PM

Hello Kaimana. I'm sure Oddworld is filled with exciting and wonderous flying machines. After all, the Vykkers have a special relationship with being far above the ground, thanks to their ancestral arboreal legacy. Note that all thre flying vehicles we saw in MO (Vykkers Labs, the blimp and the pods) used gas-filled balloons to suspend them so high. Now some smart person is going to come in and tell me what that gas is, but I'll tell them it begins with 'H'. I though hydrogen, but feel free to embarass me.

But then, Vykkers obviously have more helicopter- and aeroplane-like technology, since they designed the Sligs' flying harness. They also seem to be able to use levitation of sorts, since zappers and chant suppressers seem to float freely.

TheKhanzumer · #3 06-27-2002, 05:59 PM

I think the reason that most Oddworldian air-vehicles we have seen have been balloon-type is because the vykkers borrowed an idea from nature. Just like our planes were fashioned after birds, the blimps of oddworld are fashioned after the form of meetle which has a blimp-like appearance.

Does what I said make since?

***Xavier*** · #4 06-27-2002, 06:09 PM

it makes sence...
but a creature like a blimp?

and the Blimps are desingned by Vykkers Labs and rich glukkons can buy them like Molluck and Lulu

Kaimana · #5 06-27-2002, 06:09 PM

It does indeed make sense. like you said Khanzumer we do mimic our natural aviators (birds) i believe you are right about the Vykkers and them copying the meetles...oh yeah and thanks Max for that interesting analogy.

***Xavier*** · #6 06-27-2002, 06:31 PM

sorry but meetles don't fly like blimps...
did you already saw a meetle fly ?

Kaimana · #7 06-27-2002, 06:34 PM

yes meetles were used by mudokons as air machines seeing how meetles are inflatable like a balloon it says so on Oddworldian.

***Xavier*** · #8 06-27-2002, 06:37 PM

look:
http://www.oddworld.au.com/files/movies/CamMov.mpeg
they don't fly like blimps...
but the principe is the same

Kaimana · #9 06-27-2002, 06:56 PM

your right they do not fly exactly like a blimp but the concept is very similar they inflated themselves in order to float the same as a blimp. So the concept is still there.

***Xavier*** · #10 06-27-2002, 07:04 PM

oh yeah... the reason why the vykkers are in flying vehicles is because Lorne wanted to point out that they are deconnected from the real word... he also wanted to show good the "pic up an animal for testing it" idea

Kaimana · #11 06-27-2002, 07:14 PM

interseting....that makes alot of sense as well. hey that was a cool video by the way is that a clip from ME

***Xavier*** · #12 06-27-2002, 07:19 PM

It's a video of an earlier version of MO, but it isn't in the final game

Kaimana · #13 06-27-2002, 07:29 PM

Oh.............Well it is really cool

Oddsville · #14 06-27-2002, 07:57 PM

Mabye the Vykkers can only levetate small objects? After all, we have managed to make small vehicls levetate ( but we usually use some type of loud Mechanical object to do so).

Kaimana · #15 06-28-2002, 12:13 AM

That could also be another possibility.

One, Two, Middlesboogie · #16 06-28-2002, 08:07 AM

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Originally posted by Max the Mug
Now some smart person is going to come in and tell me what that gas is, but I'll tell them it begins with 'H'. I though hydrogen, but feel free to embarass me.

I think it's Helium, as it's totally unreactive and so there's no risk of the gas catching fire and exploding. Some of the earliest blimps here (the most famous example being the Hindenburg) were filled with Hydrogen, and as a result were prone to exploding, killing everyone inside.

***Xavier*** · #17 06-28-2002, 10:51 AM

well Vykkers Lab didn't explode when there was fire so I think it was helium

how do you know it begins with H ?

Oddsville · #18 06-28-2002, 12:23 PM

I think Vykkers Labs might have some type of giant mechanical engin in its center the fills the 'air sacks' with steam. After all I know that the Blimps are filled with steam so why not Vykkers Labs?

***Xavier*** · #19 06-28-2002, 01:45 PM

can't see much machinery...
even on the big size picture there is no much to see

Steve · #20 06-28-2002, 02:46 PM

Here's a useless question, are they blimps or dirigibles? they look more like dirigibles to me. (dirigibles have light metal plating around the outside, blimps don't)

Oddsville · #21 06-28-2002, 04:03 PM

Well OWI calls them Blimps so I guess they are.

***Xavier*** · #22 06-28-2002, 04:06 PM

yeah... I don't see what's the problem.
what do you mean Steve?

Kaimana · #23 06-28-2002, 04:10 PM

if OWI said there blimps then they are. I dont see any metal casing around its is definately not a dirigible.

***Xavier*** · #24 06-28-2002, 04:40 PM

wonderfull picture of a blimp...
no problem with it

Kaimana · #25 06-28-2002, 05:08 PM

Hey Xavier beautiful pic of a Blimp.................very nice.

***Wil*** · #26 06-28-2002, 05:19 PM

Early blueprints of the blimp show that it was once called a dirigible.

I don't really know it to begin with H, I just remember it beginning with H.

***Xavier*** · #27 06-28-2002, 05:22 PM

I got a good blueprint and I don't see dirigible on it...
can you describe that blueprint?

ethan · #28 06-28-2002, 06:56 PM

what are you guys talking about?

One, Two, Middlesboogie · #29 06-28-2002, 07:14 PM

For smeg's sake, Ethan! That's the second time you've done that. It's not funny, and it's really irritating. If you want to know what we're talking about, READ THE DAMN THREAD!

***Xavier*** · #30 06-28-2002, 07:14 PM

hmmmmmm... read the topic.
you can read... no?