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The Aircruise would be a solar and hydrogen fuel cell-powered airship. [4] According to its design specifications, it would be 265 m (869 ft) tall containing 330,000 m 3 (12,000,000 cu ft) of air and would carry a payload of 396 t (390 long tons; 437 short tons).
An airship is a powered, free-flying aerostat that can be steered. Airships divide into rigid, semi-rigid and non-rigid types, with these last often known as blimps. A rigid airship has an outer framework or skin surrounding the lifting gas bags inside it, The outer envelope keeps its shape even if the gasbags are deflated.
The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, it was the first powered and steerable airship to fly. The craft featured an elongated hydrogen -filled envelope that tapered to a point at each end.
Euro Airship is planning an around-the-world, non-stop flight with Solar Airship One. It would be the first flight to make the trip without using fossil fuels.
During the 1930s, airships like the Hindenburg class were widely considered the future of air travel, [citation needed] and the lead ship of the class, LZ 129 Hindenburg, established a regular transatlantic service. The airship's destruction in a highly publicized accident was the end of these expectations.
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Deutschland was an experimental, hydrogen-filled, [1] non-rigid [1] airship built in Germany in the late 19th Century by Dr Friedrich Wölfert. [2] During a test flight in Berlin in 1897, Deutschland caught fire and crashed. [3] Wölfert and his mechanic, Robert Knabe, were killed, [3] thus becoming the first two
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