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• 2004-12-23Jiang Wei2@webnews,airship,0 /enpproperty--> Domestic airships to fly higher .
• Domestic airships to fly higher.
• The Hua Jiao Airship China, a private firm engaged in commercial airship services, received flying licences for its airships from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) yesterday. ...
• The two manned HJ2000 Helium airships have passed the examination and test flights of CAAC and were given licenses for general use in aviation. ...
• The market for airships is expected to be huge because they can work in various areas for commercial use, including advertising, aviation photography, TV relay broadcasting and air sightseeing, said Lu Shiguo, president of Hua Jiao. ...
• The two airships, which are worth 20 million yuan (US$2. ...
• Some companies have shown great interest in purchasing the airships from Hua Jiao or jointly running the airships with the company, he said. ...
• Lu said the company wishes to produce at least eight more airships by 2007 to cover all major cities in China. ...
• The flying time of the airships is expected to reach 180 days every year in two years. ...
• Helium airships enjoy great advantages in comparison with other aircraft, such as helicopters and hot air balloons, for general use because they are of high security and low cost, said Zhou Kaixuan, deputy director of the Aircraft Airworthiness Certification Department of the CAAC. ...
• "The costs of manufacturing and running the airships is low; they require simple bases to take off; and the requirements of airship pilots are much lower than that of airplane pilots," he said. ...

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• Interface Airships was created to be more than just an airship development, production and training business. ...
• Recent opportunities to conduct research from large blimps have given these scientists justification for using airships in research projects. Although scientists feel the airship, with its stable, slow, and low altitude flight, is an ideal platform for aerial observation, the operating costs of most commercial airships are too expensive for current research funding levels. Interface Airships believes that smaller airships can fulfill the scientists needs at superior cost effectiveness, and is currently operating an experimental two person airship for testing of airship design and coastal research concepts. ...
• Interface Airships has developed a pilot program to use the prototype airship for coastal oceanographic research in Florida, with primary emphasis on manatee identification, behaviours and habitats. ...
• Interface Airships will provide such services to clients unable or unwilling to pay the high costs associated with the large airships. Such FAA certified airships could also play a valuable role as a primary pilot trainer for the growing U. ... commercial airship fleet, providing far less expensive flight experience than the larger airships.
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• The information here is specific to radio-controlled Airships and Blimps. If you are looking for information about manned airships, please visit the Airship and Blimp Resources. ...
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• For more than a century the principal and preferred lifting substance for both balloons and airships was hydrogen, the lightest of the elements, despite it being highly dangerous because of its extreme flammability. ...
• It has become customary to refer to all German rigid airships of the Great War as Zeppelins, but in fact not all were. ...
• The vast amount of literature devoted to German airships can easily, and has, led to the belief that these were the dominant LTA craft of the Great War. ...
• All airships flying today are non-rigid types, popularly known as blimps. ...
• Navy, the only service in the world to operate airships during World War II, inexplicably changed the designation "airship patrol squadron:" to "blimp squadron. ...
• Modern airships serve a number of utilitarian functions, but they remain relative oddities in the sky and are generally known only as flying billboards and for flashing advertising messages and transmitting television images of sporting events. ...
• 1 The first of the French airships was powered by a steam engine, the next two by human muscle and the fourth, and most successful, by an electric motor. ...
• Navy's four rigid airships, the Los Angeles, Akron and Macon were Zeppelins. ... This firm acquired Zeppelin patents and imported key Zeppelin aeronautical engineers who played a leading role in the design of the Akron and Macon and several other airships. ...
• The belief is also belied by the fact that the Hindenburg was designed from the start to be lifted by hydrogen (because of the disparity in lifting strength between hydrogen and helium, weights and stresses have to be calculated differently in the design of airships intended to use one or the other).

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• As the comparative size diagram shows, airships dwarfed even a modern-day jumbo jet. ...
• When fixed-wing aircraft were barely able to carry one person aloft for a short time, airships were able to carry several and stay aloft for days. ... Airships were true VTOL aircraft. ...
• There are two types of military Lighter-Than-Air craft, or airships. ...
• Airships have to be hangared, because they are extremely vulnerable to high winds, and their fabric envelopes have to be protected from the elements. ...
• The French Dixmude was lost and the Italian Roma in 1922 and European development of airships was abandoned. ...
• In WW I, both British and German airships were most effective as maritime patrollers. The Germans had few convoys to escort, but the British found airships valuable in that roll. ...
• On patrol missions, airships would fly long missions, often over 24 hours, sometimes close to enemy coasts. ...
• The US Navy included airships in exercises throughout the late '20s and early '30s. ...
• There was no intention or desire to use the airships' Sparrowhawk aircraft offensively. ...

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• Hot air airships offer a phantastic compromise between the ease of use common to hot air balloons and the maneuvrability of real airships. Like balloons, hot air airships can be transported on a trailer. ...
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• There are three categories of airships, Rigid, Semi-Rigid and Non-Rigid. ...
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• Airships, which get their shape only in cause of the pressure of the lifting-gas inside the envelope are called airships of the non-rigid type. ...
• The semi-rigid airships .
• Semi-rigid airships are airships, which are a hybrid between a rigid airship and a blimp. Because of the keel construction below the envelope they are also known as keel-airships. There are many parallels to the basic construction of non-rigid airships, but also some advantages of rigid airships are also used in this hybrid construction. ...
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• In 1934 Dick left for Germany to collect information on the design, engineering, construction and operation of the German airships. ...
•   There he spent several years in the design and engineering of the big rigid airships Akron and Macon. ...
• Acting as a liaison between Goodyear and Luftschiffbau Zeppelin from 1934 - 1938, Hal Dick became the only American to have flown 22 ocean crossings as a crewman on the German passenger airships, the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg. ...
• Dick mailed numerous postcards to himself from aboard the airships, documenting his many flights. ...
•   As a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, he made over 100 presentations on the passenger airships and Nazi Germany.   He recounted these experiences in a book entitled The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: The Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg, published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1986.

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