An air transport mode using a powered, steerable lighter-than-air aircraft, an airship or dirigible, to carry passengers and cargo under its own power rather than drifting with an unpowered balloon. Frenchman Henri Giffard flew the first engine-powered airship in 1852, covering 27 kilometers under steam power, and German Zeppelins later carried the mode to its commercial peak in the interwar period, when the Graf Zeppelin flew regular Frankfurt to Brazil service in as little as 68 hours with private cabins and dining rooms rivaling an ocean liner. The mode never scaled past the 1930s, however, because it demanded large ground crews and enormous purpose-built hangars, and it declined sharply after the era's high-profile airship disasters.
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Core ConcernCarrying passengers and cargo by powered, steerable lighter-than-air aircraft 1 Cargo or Passenger Connections
Exemplified By
Source Akron-class airship (Wikipedia)
Source B-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source C-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source D-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source E-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source F-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source G-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source Goodyear GZ-20 (Wikipedia)
Source Goodyear RS-1 (Wikipedia)
Source Goodyear Type AD (Wikipedia)
Source Goodyear ZWG (Wikipedia)
Source H-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source J-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source K-1 (airship) (Wikipedia)
Source K-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source L-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source Loral GZ-22 (Wikipedia)
Source M-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source N-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Source Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 (Wikipedia)
An aircraft, so it exemplifies the aviation mode.
Source SkyHook JHL-40 (Wikipedia)
Has Worker
Source Enrico Forlanini (Wikipedia)
Pioneered By
Source Wikipedia: Alberto Santos-Dumont
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1. Wikipedia: Airship
WikipediaIntroduction
An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power.
Overview
In early dirigibles, the lifting gas was hydrogen, due to its high lifting capacity and ready availability.
History
In 1670, the Jesuit Father Francesco Lana de Terzi, sometimes referred to as the "Father of Aeronautics", published a description of an "Aerial Ship" supported by four copper spheres from which the air was evacuated.
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- Part Of: Aviation
In Group: Commercial and General Aviation Modes, Lead paragraph
can navigate through the air flying under its own power
View the Source 2. Garland Fulton on Airships and Lift Gases (National Air and Space Museum)
Opening paragraph, first clause
In the early 20th century, airships were seen as the ideal air transportation for carrying freight and most notably,
Opening paragraph, carrying clause
carrying freight and most notably,
View the SourceWikipedia: Alberto Santos-Dumont
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He designed, built, and flew the first powered airships and won the Deutsch prize in 1901, when he flew around the Eiffel Tower in his airship No. 6.
SkyHook JHL-40 (Wikipedia)
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The SkyHook JHL-40 was a proposed hybrid airship/helicopter.
L-8 (Wikipedia)
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L-8, later renamed America and popularly known as the "Ghost Blimp", was a United States Navy L-class airship
Enrico Forlanini (Wikipedia)
Has Worker: Enrico Forlanini, AirshipsQuote, Has Worker: Enrico Forlanini, Airships
Later he designed and built a series of dirigibles
Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: Northrop Grumman LEMV, Development, HAV 304 and the LEMV requirementQuote, Exemplified By: Northrop Grumman LEMV, Development, HAV 304 and the LEMV requirement
The LEMV programme was intended to demonstrate a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle
Goodyear Aerospace (Wikipedia)
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The company subsequently constructed rigid (zeppelins) and non-rigid (blimps) dirigibles for the US military.
Goodyear GZ-20 (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: Goodyear GZ-20, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: Goodyear GZ-20, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
was a class of non-rigid airship or blimp
Goodyear RS-1 (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: Goodyear RS-1, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: Goodyear RS-1, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
was the first semi-rigid airship built in the United States
Goodyear Type AD (Wikipedia)
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The Goodyear Type AD was a small airship
K-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: K-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: K-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
a class of blimps (non-rigid airship)
L-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: L-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: L-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
The L-class blimps were training airships
M-class blimp (Wikipedia)
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built the M-class blimp for the United States Navy as the follow-on to the K-class anti-submarine warfare blimp
N-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: N-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: N-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
was a line of non-rigid airships
C-class blimp (Wikipedia)
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The C-class blimp was a patrol airship developed by the US Navy
D-class blimp (Wikipedia)
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The D class blimp was a patrol airship used by the US Navy in the early 1920s.
E-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: E-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: E-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
The E class of US Navy blimps comprised a single airship
F-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: F-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: F-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
The F class of US Navy blimps comprised a single airship
G-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: G-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: G-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
The G-Class Blimps were a series of non-rigid airships (blimps) used by the United States Navy.
J-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: J-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: J-class blimp, Lead, kind of craft (mode)
The J-class blimps were non-rigid airships designed by the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in the early 1920s for the US Navy.
K-1 (airship) (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: K-1 (airship), Lead, kind of craft (mode)Quote, Exemplified By: K-1 (airship), Lead, kind of craft (mode)
The K-1 was an experimental blimp designed by the United States Navy in 1929.
Goodyear ZWG (Wikipedia)
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Airborne Early Warning Airship
Akron-class airship (Wikipedia)
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The Akron-class airships were a class of two rigid airships constructed for the US Navy in the early 1930s.
H-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: H-class blimp, LeadQuote, Exemplified By: H-class blimp, Lead
The H class blimp was an observation airship built for the U.S. Navy in the early 1920s.
Loral GZ-22 (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: Loral GZ-22, LeadQuote, Exemplified By: Loral GZ-22, Lead
was a class of non-rigid airship
B-class blimp (Wikipedia)
Exemplified By: B-class blimp, Lead, airshipsQuote, Exemplified By: B-class blimp, Lead, airships
The B class blimps were patrol airships operated by the United States Navy during and shortly after World War I.
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