Airship
... can be steered and propelled through the air. Unlike aerodynamic craft (e.g. airplanes and helicopters) which stay ... aloft by moving an airfoil through the air in order to produce lift, aerostatic craft such as airships (and balloons) stay aloft ... However, hydrogen is flammable when mixed with air, a quality that, among other factors, ...
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Talk:Airship
... distinction between the propelled and non-propelled craft is pretty standard. Do you have a ... commonly used word when talking about powered-lighter-than-air flight. This page should stay and links ... itself because all dirigibles are steerable boyant craft (balloons), where-as airships also include heavier-than-air craft though that isn't common ...
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Zeppelin
... the fall of the "giants of the air", though other factors, including political issues, contributed ... numerous and powerful engines. This makes the craft quite distinct from non-rigid airships commonly ... almost all airships since. Within this outer envelope several separate balloons called "cells" contained the lighter-than-air gas hydrogen. Non-rigid airships do ...
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Hybrid airship
... aircraft that combines characteristics of heavier-than-air, (HTA), (airplane or helicopter) and lighter than air, (LTA), technology. Examples include helicopter/airship hybrids ... focuses on hybrids that combine heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air technologies. No practical human- ...
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Alberto Santos-Dumont
... himself as the first "sportsman of the air." He designed, built, and flew a variety ... balloons that could be propelled through the air rather than drifting along with the breeze ... public followed his daring exploits eagerly. With air traffic control restrictions still decades in the ... cafe for lunch. The zenith of his lighter-than-air career came on October 19, 1901 ...
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R101
... engines (sectioned for display) View from the air of the crash site. The R101 Airship ... Hindenburg disaster that coloured public opinion of lighter-than-air craft. History Design The R101 was the result ... used: one, under the British Government's Air Ministry, would build the R101, and ...
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Boeing X-43
... the X-43A the fastest free flying air-breathing aircraft in the world. The third ... scramjet operated for about ten seconds, the craft made a planned crash into the Pacific ... propulsion, hypersonic aerodynamics and design methods. The craft NASA's B-52B launch aircraft takes ... 8 foot, high temperature wind tunnel. The craft was created to develop and test an ... variation where external combustion takes place within air that is flowing at supersonic speeds. ...
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Talk:Project Orion
... thousands of grams to launch a space craft. Current production is 10 nanograms/year worldwide ... is about 10 -4 . This is because lighter particles are produced preferentially to antiprotons, and ... a result, I'm not sure these craft are practical (depends on how much you need a small high-thrust fission craft). Antimatter-induced _fusion_ is a lot dodgier ... be cited for this? Back of the envelope estimates give numbers in the same ...
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Talk:SpaceShipOne flight 16P
... and the roll problem meant that the craft wasn't as high as planned for ... So far as I have watched the craft has landed but the pilot has not ... information from SPACE.com: radar at Edwards Air Force Base give an altitude of 337 ... too late and would certainly push the envelope. -Wikibob | Talk 20:32, 2004 Sep 29 ... for next Monday — has attracted far lighter advance crowds than June's historic ...
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Zeppelin NT
... enough buoyancy to make the whole ship "lighter-than-air." The negative buoyancy is overcome with engine ... of the ZLG in January 2001. The craft are also used as observation platforms for ... 1995. The prototype first took to the air in September 1997. On July 2 2000 ... from the 14,000 cubic meters of envelope volume. In January 2006 the Zeppelin ...
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