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* [http://www.aeroscraft.com Aeroscraft] - heavy lift air vehicle by the Worldwide Aeros Corp. | * [http://www.aeroscraft.com Aeroscraft] - heavy lift air vehicle by the Worldwide Aeros Corp. | ||
* [http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/HighAltitudeAirship/index.html Lockheed-Martin HAA Project] - Department of Defense funded stratospheric airship project. The project received nearly $150 million in funding in 2005 to build a prototype | * [http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/HighAltitudeAirship/index.html Lockheed-Martin HAA Project] - Department of Defense Missle Defense Agency funded stratospheric airship project. The project received nearly $150 million in funding in 2005 to build a prototype to be flown in 2009. | ||
* [http://www.dynalifter.com/ Dynalifter] - Hybrid airship under development from 2003 thru 2006. Prototype developed through the point of taxi tests. The prototype was destroyed when its hanger collapsed during a windstorm in Spring of 2007. | |||
* [http://www.dynalifter.com/ Dynalifter] - Hybrid airship under development from 2003 thru 2006. Prototype developed through the point of taxi tests. The prototype was | |||
* [http://www.jpaerospace.com/ JP Aerospace] - Building very large V-shaped airships to fly to 140,000 feet | * [http://www.jpaerospace.com/ JP Aerospace] - Building very large V-shaped airships to fly to 140,000 feet | ||
Revision as of 21:00, 29 October 2007
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General
- Airship Home Page - Provides a list of airship related websites. Also contains airship mailing list.
- Airship and Blimp Resources - This site focuses more on how to build your own airship with a particular focus on hot air airships (also known as "hotships")
- Airships Mailing List - A forum for the discussion and design of lighter-than-air craft.
- Airship: DJ's Zeppelin Page - Provides photographs of and ephemera from airships
Associations
- The Airship Association - British based association for people interested in all things to do with airships.
- Lighter than Air Society - US based association for people interested in all things to do with airships.
- The Association of Balloon and Airship Constructors - Maintains an extensive technical library on airship technology old and new.
Historical
- Navy Lakehurst Historical Society - airship history with a focus on activities at the historically most active airship base in the US.
- Airships Online - website of the Airships Heritage Trust. It contains an extensive history relating British Airships from 1900 to the present day.
- US Navy Airship History
- Harold G. Dick Airship Collection - biography of Harold G. Dick
- Postcards from Harold G. Dick Airship Collection
- The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: The Collection of Harold G. Dick
- US Centennial of Flight Commission
- Simine's U.S. Aviation Patent Database US Aviation Patent Database, 1799-1909
- Zeppelin in Brazil - Images
Manufacturers and commercial operators
- Airship Association Net Links Page for a comprehensive list of companies throughout the world focusing on the development of airships.
- Airship Management Services — Operators of several type-certified airships including the Fuji Blimp. These aircraft were originally built by the Westinghouse Corporation with the designation Skyship 600. They also own and operate a sightseeing airship in Switzerland under the name Skycruiser Switzerland
- Airship Asia Company making helium airships in Thailand
- American Blimp Corporation In association with The Lightships Group, this company builds and operates the world's largest fleet of airships.
- Augur Aerostatic Systems — Russian company making both gas and hot air airships
- Cameron Airships — Hot air airships manufactured by Cameron Balloon - the world's largest manufacturer of hot air balloons.
- GEFA-FLUG GmbH - The Air Company — makers of hot air airships
- The Goodyear Blimps — The most famous modern airships, owned and operated by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
- Lindstrand Airships — Hot air airships manufactured by hot air balloon company Lindsrand, a subsidiary of Cameron Balloon.
- RosAero — Russian airship company that makes both Helium and hot air airships
- WDL -- a German airship that also operates heavier-than-air aircraft
- Worldwide Aeros Corp. — Aeros is an lighter-than-air (LTA) aircraft manufacturing company. The company's operations involve the research, development, production, operation and marketing of a family of Aeros-branded air vehicles used in government and commercial applications. These include non-rigid FAA Type Certified Aeros 40D Sky Dragon Airship (blimp), Advanced Tethered Aerostats and New Type Rigid Air Vehicle - Aeroscraft.
- Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH — The Zeppelin Company and the Zeppelin NT.
High-profile flights
- Total Pole Airship Planned expedition over the polar ice cap in a RosAero Au 30
Experiments, prototypes and one-offs
- 21st Century Airships Inc. Developers of spherical, finless airships.
- USA Airships
- White Dwarf — A small, human-powered airship
- Zeppy — Human powered airship. Website in French.
- Voliris — French company that has built a small 2 person ship.
- Electroplume 250 — a small, one person electrically driven airship. Website in French.
- Dendronautics — This group, led by Graham Dorrington, has developed several 1 and 2 person electric-motor-powered airships specifically focused on rain forest canopy access. One of these ships was the subject of the Werner Herzog documentary "The White Diamond" in 2004.
- Operation L’Alize — A lenticularly shaped airship
- Personal Blimp — A hot air airship with a ribbed envelope structure.
- Santo2006 - A Roziere (helium and hot air) airship used for rain forest canopy access. There is also a technical write-up in English.
Designs under development
- Aeroscraft - heavy lift air vehicle by the Worldwide Aeros Corp.
- Lockheed-Martin HAA Project - Department of Defense Missle Defense Agency funded stratospheric airship project. The project received nearly $150 million in funding in 2005 to build a prototype to be flown in 2009.
- Dynalifter - Hybrid airship under development from 2003 thru 2006. Prototype developed through the point of taxi tests. The prototype was destroyed when its hanger collapsed during a windstorm in Spring of 2007.
- JP Aerospace - Building very large V-shaped airships to fly to 140,000 feet
Proposed designs
- Vertical Airships
- Airship Holland
- Nagy High Speed Airship
- Millennium Airship
- Quantum Aerostatics
- Hybrid Aircraft Corporation
- Advanced Hybrid Aircraft
- Zeppelin Europe Tours — Group proposing airship tours in Europe. Despite the similar name, the group has no direct connection with the present day Zeppelin company.
- New Scientist — High-tech blimps could soon provide Hubble-like views of the sky at a small fraction of the cost of a space-based mission.
- Stratxx — proposed high altitude airship
- air genie - proposed spherical airships covered with LED video displays
- Varialift - proposed "variable lift" airship. The lift control mechanism is not identified on their website.
- StratoStar - proposed high altitude communications platform
Recently defunct projects
- World Skycat Ltd. - A company marketing the Skycat aircraft being developed by Advanced Technologies Group (see next item.)
- Advanced Technologies Group Until August of 2005, when it went into receivership, this company was developing a range of products such as UAV's - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, heavier-than-air airships and HAPS' - High Altitude Platform Stations for telecommunication. The assets of the company were purchased by an unnamed Italian group in Spring of 2006. The future of the company remains uncertain.