airships

Those who tought, like me, that all the German engineering expertise on hardware airships ended with the Hindenburg, are wrong. The BA/MA in Freiburg has a file (included in RM 7/2382), dated 12.2.1938,and stemming from the Kriegsmarine, refering to a proposal, serious enough to the point of...

Some interesting news regarding systems similar to JLENS (and other options) https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/army-taking-wide-open-approach-to-high-altitude-platforms-smdc-chief/ https://www.twz.com/air/polands-plan-to-deploy-early-warning-radar-blimps-moves-forward 7 years after the...

https://www.twz.com/air/chinas-gigantic-airship-hangar-has-gotten-even-larger

In a patent dated October 20, 1914, entitled Fallgeschoß für Luftfahrzeuge, Walther Lentz presents a type of projectile, an aerial torpedo dropped from airships by means of an ejection device on a descending trajectory.The aerial torpedo has a simple shape, with two slender wings attached to the...

View: https://youtu.be/2LKS2kR4LJY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship

Is aerial refueling truly better than an airborne aircraft carrier?

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...

Hello, heres Markus, and since I was a child I love everything about board games, video games, and aircrafts and combat games and movies. Maybe you remember Crimson Skies? We never have had such a game setting again I guess so a friend, Bernhard and I came up with the idea to launch a new game...

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-futuristic-space-technology-concepts-for-early-study/

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...

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...

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/26/google-sergey-brin-building-largest-aircraft

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...

Hello folks, Hope this is not old news or wrongly placed – if so, many apologies: for all that the illustration below is an artist's impression, I decided to try this in 'Early Aircraft' (as opposed to ‘Theoretical and Speculative’) because there were at least scale-model versions of this idea...

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...

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...

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...