airships

Coopership Industries was a company founded in 1996 to design and build (very) large rigid hull airships. The website at www.coopership.com appears to have disappeared in the early 2000s, but included this info on the proposed airship: The attached picture comes from a January 2001 article in...

The recent near space manoeuvring thread features work by J P Aerospace and got me thinking that their airship to orbit (ATO) programme deserves its own thread. ATO is one of the more original (many say impossible!) ideas for getting to LEO. Following ATO description is taken from attached PDF...

Airship Industries (UK) Ltd teamed up with Westinghouse Electric Corporation to develop the civilian SkyShip 5000 and the United States Navy YEZ-2A Sentinel 5000 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) airship in the mid-1980s. In 1990, Airship Industries collapsed and the company became Westinghouse...

i write an article on Roswell UFO Incident based on "Roswell crap show" topic in this forum http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2816.0/highlight,roswell.html during research i found this article here http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2007_04_22_archive.html quote from the article...

Today I had a look into "Luftshiffe die nie gebaut wurden" (Airships, which were never built), published by the Zeppelinmuseum, Friedrichshafen. Most spectacular are the two designs from Frank Tinsley, based on work done by Goodyear. A flying aircraft carrier from 1951 and the better known...

Small Rigid Airship. Pic taken from a Spanish clone of Popular Mechanics, 1984. No info available.

Dear All I know this isn't really a Secret Projects type of question, but are there any French or Italian folks out there who are interested in, or who have friends and colleagues who are interested in history of airships? I am trying to find out more about the Zeppelins which were given to...

Hi, Varialift is a unique heavy lift transport Airship,its carrying capacity is from one ton to 1000 tonnes. http://www.varialift.com/

In an issue of Icare, I think from 1979, I found this photo of an unfinished fuselage, shown at an exhibition. I would call this a geodesic structure, invented, or at least first used in aircraft design, by Barnes Wallis in 1932. But the photo shows a Latécoère aircraft ! I still couldn't...

When was the technology available for the introduction of SkyCats should a demand for their capability arise earlier?

Overscan, is it allowed to create a thread regarding airships ;) ? Around 1964 the US company Aereon built an interesting nameless(?) airship. 1. Did it ever fly? 2. Is the marked area (see arrow) the cabin for pilot and second person? 3. Has it a name/designation? 4. I'm still looking for...