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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.
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 ]
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.
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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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.
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.