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Not a journalist I place a lot of credence with so take with pinch of salt:
Satellite photos reveal colossal airship hangar in Chinese desert
Keen to know if other sources on this.
Kinda lost for the appropriate placement of this rigid airship which has not been introduced to the forum (as far as I can see):
The SPIESS was the first and only French rigid airship, built in 1913, named after its designer, Joseph Spiess. The patent for a rigid airship was registered first in...
I'm wondering how the course of passenger airship development in Germany would have unfolded if Hitler and the Nazis had not come to power, because the Nazis disliked Hugo Eckener, even though the Zeppelin company had no choice to adorn the Hindenburg's fins with the swastika emblem due to a...
I didn't see any topics featuring or referencing this interesting airship (including the compelling figures involved in its development and construction), but I came across a some newsreel footage of it worthy of posting and created this topic for reference and as a potentially clearinghouse for...
What to do about the worldwide Helium shortage?? Guaranteed to put a crimp in the plans for global domination by the Airship industry (did I hear someone mutter "Hindenburg" under their breath?).
I suppose if things turn really desperate they might revert back to good old fashioned hot air but...
This is a video about the possibility of the colonization of Venus put forward by NASA. Personally, I think the idea of colonizing Venus is a completely useless idea. Even more useless than colonizing Mars. Venus's environment is even more harsh than the environment on Mars which will we should...
I went deep down the rabbit hole today and stumbled into these two Aerostat vids from sometime in the 90s.
First one up is the classic JLENS missile defense role for both cruise and ballistic missiles in conjunction with Patriot, THAAD, etc
The second one I found more interesting as it was a...
Hullo all!
Attached are a few images of a 1930s Goodyear-Zeppelin proposal for a large passenger airship based on the ZRS scout airship. All items are held in the collection of the University of Akron Archives, from which permission to post has been obtained.
If there's any interest, I have a...
1930s
airshipairships
cold war
commercial
goodyear
goodyear tire and rubber company
goodyear-zeppelin
interwar period
passenger
pre-world war ii
world war ii
zeppelin
Hi,
the Leningrad Construction Bureau of Aeronautics designed many little known airship Projects,such as L-100,L-117,L-200 & L-300,
also a double dirigible L-215,the numbers indicates to a weight tons,and to be honest,I don;t know if they built anyone of
them or not.
L + K 11/1970.
An interesting website regarding the unbuilt British R102 airship:
http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/R102/Index.html
The R102 would have been history's biggest rigid airship, had it been built, even bigger than the Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II.
Hi,
the All American Engineering Company seemed to be invention many
aircraft Projects,in the Submersible Aircraft topic and in reply # 152,I
displayed an article about flying submarine jet fighter Project for this
firm;
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,703.150.html
In...
Try as I might, I can find very few inventors, enthusiasts, engineers who were experimenting with light-than-air flight in America. Solomon Andrews seems to be the only name I can find. Did American have enough interest to develop airships in this nation, or were we more focused of the...
Hello,
I know we have some brilliant and experienced engineers here on the forum. I was wondering if you guys could advise me about solutions to a problem.
The goal is a nuclear powered airship. The reactor is on a separate balloon so that distance can act as shielding.
The problem is that the...
Nearly forgotten, another project is mentioned, from a company not really known for producing airships:
At the beginning of the '70s, the Dornier AG had drawn projects for a passenger and a cargo carrying airship.
Those studies were ordered by the "Flugschiffbau Hamburg GmbH", without precise...
After WW I Schütte-Lanz, led by Prof. Schütte tried to get into the civil airship business by designing
Trans-Atlantic airships. SL 101 "Atlantic" would have had a volume of 95,000 cbm, whereas SL 102
"Panamerica" would have been considerble bigger with 205,000 cbm.
Apart from the wartime...
21st century airships may join Navy fleet
A new generation of British-built airships may be bought by the Royal Navy to resupply ships, following their use by the US Army on the front line in Afghanistan.
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
11:44AM GMT 13 Feb 2012
Airship that can...
Cloudbase is the fictional skyborne headquarters of international security organisation Spectrum,
from Gerry Anderson's science fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Years later the British Interplanetary Society proposed so a Cloudbase, but for Atmosphere of Venus !
In...
aerostat habitats
airshipairships
cccp
floating city
great britain
nasa
offworld colonies
soviet union
space age
space race
united kingdom
united states
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