In article ,
Jay Maynard wrote:
On 2008-05-29, BradGuth wrote:
How about the required technical expertise of flying such an airship
(robotic or manned) within that thick soup of the Venusian lower
atmosphere?

How does this relate to rec.aviation.piloting? Nobody here knows anything
about the subject, largely because *nobody* knows anything about the
subject.

Though it pains me to even reply to a reply to the manifestly
delusional Guthball, balloons - though not airships - /have/
been flown in Venus atmosphe at least two of the Soviet
missions to Venus in the 80s launched aerostats, and they yielded
some very interesting (and, in some cases, still not fully
explained) measurements of atmospheric composition[1]. They
were flying in the upper cloud layers, mind. The Venera landers
established pretty well why you'd not try to fly balloons
near the surface. Too dam' hot, and boiling H2SO4 rain would
hurt, too.

[1] And dynamics. Because it rotates so slowly and because
of the angle of its rotation axis, Venus has /very/ odd
weather systems..

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