The-Necromancer

Hey  everyone, I just watched these videos about real historical  German air pirates during WW1. Considering the dieselpunk genre's theme of air pirates and airships, they provide a nice historical  reference.

could i please ask you a few questions about airships since im thinking of having a airship made or just doing one

Hello again @The-Necromancer it's good to hear from you. I have a question relating to dieselpunk flying aircraft carriers like the Akron-class airship (with its signature trapeze-style recovery/launch system) and your examples below:

The Akron-class airships' trapeze-style recovery/launch system appear to be a popular example for the US military's multiple post-Akron attempts with creating parasite fighters from flying carriers. But its successful use involved biplane-type fighters, which allows fictional ideas based on the Czech Avia B-534 and British Gloster Gladiator biplanes... and maybe the 1930s-era Polish PZL P.24. and USSR Polikarpov I-16s monoplanes.

In contrast, post-WW2 examples used jet-powered monoplanes which presented problems like with the McDonnell F-85 Goblin parasite fighter's docking tests.

The only alternative was the USSR's Zveno project consisting of a Tupolev TB-1 or a Tupolev TB-3  heavy bomber mothership and two to five fighters. Depending on the variant, the fighters either launched with the mothership or docked in  flight, and they could refuel from the bomber. The definitive Zveno-SPB  using a TB-3 and two Polikarpov I-16 monoplanes.

If we are talking about prop-driven monoplanes for faster performance aircraft, do you think the trapeze system might work for such planes? Or the top-mounted, aircraft carrier-style runways in your two pics above might work better

Say @The-Necromancer I remembered this pic introducing the idea of a single-barrelled or single-mount version of the same type of 57mm artillery (i.e. the QF 6-pounder 10 cwt gun).

I recently found videos discussing about the German Rheinmetall BK 7,5 and Swedish Bofors 57mm m/47 aircraft gun. I thought you might be interested in the videos to complement your airship armaments selection.