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Aircruise is a concept hydrogen airship envisioned as the combination of cruise ship and luxury hotel, [1] designed by the UK company Seymourpowell. Its design director is Nick Talbot. It has attracted the attention of Samsung Construction and Trading, for whom a concept video was produced.
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
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.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Hydrogen airships (2 C, 50 P) L. Lists of airships ... Pages in category "Airships" The following 36 pages are in this category ...
The mooring systems contain a large winch with 25,000 feet (7,600 m) of tether cable. Operational availability is generally limited only by the weather (60 percent standard) and routine maintenance downtime. The aerostats are stable in winds below 65 knots (120 km/h). Aerostat and equipment availability averages more than 98 percent system-wide.
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
Initial tests of airship designs proved unsatisfactory. [2] However, experiments conducted near the Tuileries from September to October 1793 to produce the required hydrogen without the use of sulphuric acid , which was in short supply, were successful, producing more than 20 cubic metres. [ 3 ]
Changes in weight of fuel on board, due to fuel consumption. This was a challenge especially in the large historic airships like the Zeppelins. For example, on a flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, the rigid airship LZ 126, built in 1923-24, used 23,000 kg gasoline and 1300 kg of oil (an average consumption of 290 kg/100 km). During the ...