Since each Air Swimmer TM has a unique serial number, it is possible to fly many together at the same time. How many? Theoretically over 64,! However, the more Air Swimmers TM that are flown in the same area, the slower their control response becomes. The volume of an inflated balloon is about 4. The clownfish has slightly less volume and the shark has slightly more.
Helium is available at most grocery stores, floral shops, party stores or any store that sell balloons. Costs to inflate your Air Swimmer TM vary depending on the store. You can also purchase disposable helium tanks, which are more expensive and usually have lower quality helium, but make it more convenient to top off your Air Swimmer TM. There are different types of helium. The helium in a disposable tank is often diluted with other gases.
Helium from the large metal tank at a party store, grocery store, or florist is usually very pure, but can be mixed with air by turning a special valve. Ask the florist not to mix it with air. Yes, but you don't have to worry. The percentage of overall helium production used for party balloons is very small. A fully inflated Air Swimmer TM should last weeks depending on helium quality.
To extend its life, try adding a bit more helium or inserting a straw into the valve and blowing air into it. Air Swimmers TM are limited to the range of their remote control, which is about 40 feet. Once out of that range, they cannot respond to commands from the controller. We recommend that you balance your Air Swimmer TM so that it has a slight negative buoyancy, which will help it drift back down to the ground if it is flown too high.
The simplest answer is that 4, feet is the limit, but the performance of your Air Swimmer TM depends on many factors. No, please don't. It will fly away and you will be sad. The sun will heat the balloon, causing it to gain more lift and fly away, where it could get tangled in power lines, distract drivers, or confuse ichthyologists. A ribbon might prevent it from flying away, but the slightest breeze will make the Air Swimmer TM hard to hold on to. Air Swimmers TM are not meant for outdoor use.
For short-term storage use the docking hook on the controller, tie it to something using the included ribbon, or remove some weight and let it float up to the ceiling.
For a simple longer-term storage idea see NightFlyyer's youtube video. To deflate the balloon, gently insert a thin straw into the one-way valve in the tail about 6 inches past the opening. If the straw doesn't fit easily, it is too large. After inserting the straw, gently squeeze the helium out of the balloon.
This step may take a little while, so we don't recommend deflating your Air Swimmer TM unless necessary. Fispq pegamil lub. Informe final ader-herrera. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Views Total views. Actions Shares. No notes for slide. NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live followed suit with a series of skits involving the "land shark," a shark that would knock on some unwary victim's door, announce itself as a "candy gram" or "pizza delivery" in a muffled voice and would then eat the victim head first upon opening the door.
Toward the end of the decade, the ABC-TV sitcom Happy Days had the dubious honor of introducing the phrase "jumping the shark" into the lexicon. Flying shark? Yes, indeed. Actually, this rather fun representation of what appears to be the famous great white shark, or Carcharodon carcharias, is a brilliantly engineered remote controlled blimp which "swims" through the air much like a fish swims through water, that is, by flapping its tail.
Since air is a fluid, it stands to reason that something suitably buoyant would be able to swim through it. One of my best friends in the world is Jeff Brock. He and his wife Cindy are SoCal natives like me and the two relocated to Cumming, Georgia some years back. Our relationship actually dates back to the "Jaws" era when the two of us worked as teenagers at Montgomery Ward in Torrance, California.
We stay in touch via e-mail on an almost daily basis; one recent e-mail was a link to a video on Wimp. This, thought I, was something worth reviewing. It also led me to the inventor of Air Swimmers, Blake English. Blake is an RCGroups patron who already had a discussion thread underway, found here.
He got back to me almost immediately with the promise of providing a review sample. I had to ask for the shark.
Assembly is similar between the two versions and operation is identical. It's also really quick. We'll have this shark swimming across the living room in no time, so cue the creepy, ominous music and let's get busy! The young woman at the Vons supermarket in Yucca Valley, California was utterly amused by the notion of a flying shark with a photo-realistic mouth and she had the balloon inflated tight with five bucks' worth of helium in no time.
Such a large balloon required her to give me a large weight at the end of a ribbon molded in the shape of a happy face, no less to prevent a flyaway; this weight proved to be a real keeper to assist in mooring the finished, um, fish.
It also proved to be invaluable in keeping the balloon moored during most of the assembly process, especially when I didn't have an assistant handy. I should point out that after a couple of days, the balloon started to lose helium. Rather than haul the entire assembled blimp back to the supermarket, I picked up a Balloon Time party balloon kit from the Walmart Supercenter in Palm Springs, California one evening after work.
A very brief burst from the cylinder reinflated the balloon, so unless it's totally deflated, one of these disposable tanks ought to last quite a long time. As of this writing, I must have done a good job of resealing the valve since there's been no noticeable loss of helium over the last several days. The balloon is made of nylon, not mylar like a toy balloon. This may have something to do with it.
Speaking of helium, please don't breathe the stuff. Yes, it makes you sound like a Munchkin and yes, I've done it countless times during my lifetime, but that light-headed feeling you get is the result of your brain being starved of oxygen. An oxygen-starved brain is a bad thing. Again, please don't huff the helium. Wikimedia Foundation, 02 Mar.
Intro : Air simmers are just a huge sac that is filled with helium that floats and flies through the air. How does it work? It took over three years to make this idea come to life. During the first year, the idea was just a thought in the back of his head. After that year, Blake started working on prototypes that took an additional two years or so. I know that the Air Swimmer Fans are wondering how much money it to create the prototype. Geez, I guess you really do get what you pay for huh?
Blake first got involved with the Toy Industry at a family holiday party, where he met Mark Forti the president and owner of the William Mark Corporation. They talked about a product he was working on and Blake was able to solve a few engineering problems; He then hired him on the spot.
The product became very successful, ever heard of Flitter Faries? Blake English has an expanded vision on products in the Toy Industry. We have way more ideas than we can possibly turn into products.
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