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• Wednesday, 27 February, 2002, 08:36 GMT Hi-tech mission for airships.
• Airships could provide a cheap and quick way of bringing mobile phone networks and fast internet connections to remote parts of the world. ...
• Engineers at Britain's Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) are working on developing airships that could provide the telecoms networks of the future. ...
• Their StratSat programme applies modern technology advances to the old principles of airships to offer what they believe is a cheap and flexible alternative to unsightly mobile phone masts across the countryside. ...
• "It's bringing airships out of the thing that you see over sports stadium just doing a bit of camera work or advertising and making them part of the 21st Century and data communication," Mike Durham, senior technical consultant at ATG. ...
• Airships developed in huge hangars.
• But for many, talk of airships will bring images of the Hindenburg disaster more than 60 years ago. ...
• "The way airships have moved forward over the past 30 years has been quite dramatic," said Mr Durham. ...

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• Stratospheric airships are being developed in India for use in surveillance, navigation and communication.
• Lighter than air technology has spawned such airborne craft like balloons, zeppelins (blimps) and airships.
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• Airships which were popular in the early part of the last century, went into oblivion in 1937 when the mammoth 804-foot long airship, Hidenburg, blew up at New Jersey landing field, killing 36 out of 92 passengers. ... Since the time of the Hidenburg airship tragedy, lighter than air technology has made great advances and airships can now be used for a variety of applications.
• Lt Gen James A Abrahamson, Chairman and CEO, SkySpectrum LLC who was in Bangalore for the Aero India 2005 show says that that high altitude airships have its uses in persistence surveillance and communications, civil and military communications and disaster preparedness and recovery.
• Says Abrahamson the first of these airships is being built as advanced concept technology vehicle and is likely to be deployed in 2005-2006. ...
• According to Dr M L Sidana, Director, Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), Agra, during the recent tsunami we did not know what was happening for practically one day and this is the kind of application which we are addressing with the development of stratospheric airships, He says that development of stratospheric airships (lighter than air technology) is being developed by a consortium which includes ISRO, Department of Science and Technology, Council for Science and Industrial Research, industry partners among others. ...
• ISRO has a history of data of wind conditions having launched satellites, which can be used in the study of airships.

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• Again and again you may experience that few means of transport are able to make media and the general public spellbound to the same extent as do the big airships - the zeppelins. According to the invitation for an international conference that was to be held in Sweden on October 23rd, 2002 (but at a late date was cancelled) - "Airships - competing in and supplementing the transport system of the future" - there was at the time about half a dozen serious airship projects all around the world. ...
• The intention with this text is - by presenting some irrefutable facts - to correct some common and often repeated misconceptions surrounding the great airships, often grown into myths. ...
• A myth, in my eyes, is the idea that the airships were examples of monstrous failures of a technological development that finally ran amok at Lakehurst, when Hindenburg crashed in 1937 and went down like once the hideous and unwanted dinosaurs. ...
• To many people he has given his name - Zeppelin - to all airships, irrespective of the design principle. However, the history of airships is much more rich than that. ...
• Although the direct contacts between airships and Sweden have been few, there are Swedes that have been fascinated by the thought of reviving the airships, especially in the 1970's when everyone began talking about energy conservation. As the airship is an extremely fuel-efficient transport tool, the Swedish Transport Research Delegation - a government body - in 1980 published a study entitled "Airships - A Review of the Potentialities". ...
•      During the last three decades blimps like the commercial airships from Goodyear and the British company Skyship have been seen over Swedish cities now and then.
• Their ambitious plans are killed when the Germans are forced to deliver all their airships to the winning powers of WW I. ...
• A few other airships visiting Swedish airspace may be listed. ...
• Although a number of hot air airships have been and are listed during the last few decades in The Swedish Aircraft Registry, only once a hydrogen-filled airship has appeared. ...
• In the present days you often hear airships of all kinds named Zeppelins. In reality, there are three different types of airships - all of course, like balloons, aircraft according to the Lighter-than-Air System (aerostats), but having means of propopulsion and mechanical steering-gear. Especially in the present day, you often hear people using the name Zeppelins for all three kinds of airships. However, if you want to dig further into the history of this fascinating transportation tool, you are recommended to distinguish between the following three different kinds of airships: .

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• In fact, Germany so dominated the rigid airships that they became known as zeppelins. ...
• Zeppelin continued to build large rigid airships for the German government, and on June 22, 1910, the Deutschland became the world's first commercial airship. ...
• 28 Discuss the use of airships in World War I. ...
• During World War I, the Germans used rigid airships on both the Eastern and Western Fronts as bombers. The airships could approach their targets silent and at altitudes above the effective ceiling of British and French fighters. However, the airships never became effective offensive weapons. ... Airships did excel as defensive weapons though; the British used nonrigid airships to patrol their coasts and used rigid airships for convoy protection.
• 29 Describe the advances in rigid airships made by the Germans after 1926. ...
• 30 Discuss the use of airships by the U. ...
• Rigid airships rose to the peak of their success between World War I and World War II. ...
• In 1926, the Treaty of Versailles allowed the Germans to construct airships again and they built three giant rigid airships. ... The Hindenburg became the most famous of all airships, not because of its success but because of its spectacular end. ...
• Navy also flew rigid airships. ...
• Investigations by the Navy and Congress endorsed the continued use of rigid airships for the Navy. ...

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• Your journey can explore the fantasy of floating through the air in a balloon, or investigate the realm of possible uses of hot air balloons and thermal airships. ...
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• Over the years, Goodyear built more than 300 airships, more than any other company in the world. ...
• During World War II many of the Goodyear-built airships provided the U. ...
• Today, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company no longer mass-produces airships. ...

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• I've always been fascinated by airships - particularly the rigid airships flown by the United States Navy. ...
• For more about US Naval Airships, check out http://www. naval-airships. ...
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• During WW II the airships also conducted search and rescue, patrol, photography, and mine laying. ...
• The Nan-ship got its name from the fact that it was the series "N" airship in the list of lettered airships. ...

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