A hybrid airship is a powered aircraft that obtains some of its lift as a lighter-than-air (LTA) airship and some from aerodynamic lift as a heavier-than-air...
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produced, although its early rival was the Parseval semi-rigid design. Hybrid airships fly with a positive aerostatic contribution, usually equal to the empty...
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The Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 (originally developed as the HAV 304; nicknamed "The Flying Bum") is a hybrid airship designed and built by British...
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Lockheed Martin P-791 (category Airships of the United States)
Lockheed Martin P-791 is an experimental aerostatic and aerodynamic hybrid airship developed by Lockheed Martin. The first flight of the P-791 took place...
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Aerostat (redirect from Hot Air Balloon and Airship)
designed to exploit this lifting effect in normal cruise are called hybrid airships. A hybrid type uses both static buoyancy and dynamic airflow to provide...
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Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) Limited is a British limited company and a British manufacturer of hybrid airships, though none have been built since the crash...
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Airborne aircraft carrier (section Airship projects)
Mysterons, the Helicarrier from Marvel Comics, the Iron Vulture, a hybrid airship from Talespin, the Valiant from series 3 of Doctor Who, and an unnamed...
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Developments, was founded in 1970, and a successor, Hybrid Air Vehicles, remains active as of 2022[update]. Airship Industries itself was active between 1980 and...
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Large aircraft (section Airships)
had the largest wingspan of any fixed-wing type. The Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 hybrid airship is the largest aircraft flying today. The lifting capacity...
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Aereon III (category Airships of the United States)
experimental hybrid airship of rigid construction built by the AEREON Corporation in the early 1960s. Of unconventional design, the airship featured three...
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Blimp (redirect from Non-rigid airship)
A non-rigid airship, commonly called a blimp (/blɪmp/), is an airship (dirigible) without an internal structural framework or a keel. Unlike semi-rigid...
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Solar vehicle (redirect from Solar powered airship)
existing deck space. Solar ships can refer to solar powered airships or hybrid airships. There is considerable military interest in unmanned aerial vehicles...
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Rotorcraft (redirect from Hybrid RotorWing)
(retrieved 16 May 2014) "Stoprotor, Hybrid Rotorwing VTOL" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. sUAS News "Hybrid RotorWing design transitions from...
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CargoLifter (section Airship)
technology and is exploring the construction of smaller airships. Aeroscraft, a hybrid airship with the same aim as CargoLifter Walrus HULA Airlander "CL160"...
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Aereon (category Airships of the United States)
Aereon was an aircraft manufacturer specializing in hybrid airships. It was founded in Princeton, New Jersey in 1959. AEREON III AEREON 26 AEREON Dynairship...
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Airship development in the United Kingdom lagged behind that of Germany and France. The first British designed and built airship was constructed by Stanley...
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Aerostat (disambiguation) (section Airships)
balloon Espionage balloon Fire balloon Hybrids combine aerostatic buoyancy and aerodynamic lift. Hybrid airship Kytoon Tethered Aerostat Radar System Akashdeep...
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novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids (e.g. kytoon and hybrid airship)....
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always points into the wind. Like the powered airship, such balloons are often called blimps. A hybrid tethered balloon or kytoon is shaped to provide...
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Cardington Airfield (redirect from Royal Airship Works)
the site was being used for the development of a hybrid airship, the Airlander 10, by the company Hybrid Air Vehicles. In 1993 planning permission was granted...
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SkyHook JHL-40 (category Airships)
The SkyHook JHL-40 was a proposed hybrid airship/helicopter. On July 9, 2008, Boeing announced that it had teamed up with SkyHook International, a Canadian...
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Walrus HULA (category Airships of the United States)
The Walrus HULA (Hybrid Ultra Large Aircraft) project was a DARPA-funded experiment to create an airship capable of traveling up to 12,000 nautical miles...
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Hybrid aircraft can refer to: Hybrid airship hybrid electric aircraft, an aircraft with an hybrid electric powertrain This disambiguation page lists articles...
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British reconnaissance aircraft of the 1920s Walrus HULA, a heavy-lift hybrid airship studied by the American Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration...
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ISBN 0-374-51635-9. (Story of the Aereon, a combination aerodyne/aerostat, a.k.a. hybrid airship.) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lifting body aircraft. Lifting...
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its engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, helicopters, airships (including blimps), gliders, paramotors, and hot air balloons. The human...
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novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids (e.g. kytoon and hybrid airship)....
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Thermoplan (category Airships of Russia)
Thermoplan is a given name of the prototype of Russian lenticular-shaped hybrid airship. The key feature of Thermoplan is its combined structure with primary...
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History Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0750969956. Smith, Richard K (1965). The Airships Akron & Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy. Annapolis...
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government away from coalition ground forces. The Hybrid Air Vehicles 92 m (302 ft) Airlander 10 hybrid airship made its first flight, of 30 minutes, at Cardington...
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