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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.
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
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.
Hydrogen airships (2 C, 50 P) L. Lists of airships (9 P) M. Military airships (3 C) R. Rigid airships (2 C, 13 P) T. Airship technology (24 P) Pages in category ...
Pages in category "Hydrogen airships" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. Zeppelin LZ 24;
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.
Both practical and steerable, the hydrogen-filled airship was equipped with a 2.2-kilowatt (3 hp) steam engine that drove a propeller. The engine was fitted with a downward-pointing funnel. The exhaust steam was mixed in with the combustion gases and it was hoped by these means to stop sparks rising up to the gas bag; he also installed a ...
A modern airship, Zeppelin NT D-LZZF in 2010 The LZ 129 Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built and was destroyed in 1937. Dirigible airships compared with related aerostats, from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1890–1907