This book provides a unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation. Airships today incorporate advanced technology including composite materials, complex electronic systems, and fly by light controls. They demand the latest theories in aerodynamics, stability and control and require the use of advanced design tools such as numerical finite element structural analysis and computer aided design. This comprehensive and fully-illustrated account brings together airship specialists from both universities and industry. After a general introduction, the essentials of aerostatics, aerodynamics, stability and control, propulsion, materials and structures are covered. The following chapters consider weight estimates and control, ground handling and mooring, systems, performance and piloting. The final chapters examine suggestions for improving airship performance, survey unconventional designs, synthesise various design elements, and look at airship roles and economic considerations vital for the success of the airship in the market place. Detailed references are also included.
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'This impressive new book draws on a wealth of recent experience by bringing together fourteen specialists in different aspects of airship design and operation - from both universities and industry ... this is an impressive tour de force, with impeccable credentials, and is set to become the definitive reference work for airship designers and engineers, professional and student aeronautical engineers, and airship enthusiasts.' Aerostat
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' ... Airship Technology is a 'must' for anyone with a serious interest in airships. Highly recommended.' Aerostat
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A comprehensive and fully illustrated book providing a unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation. It covers aerostatics, aerodynamics, stability, control, propulsion, materials, structures, weight estimates, ground handling, mooring, systems, performance and piloting. Final chapters examine improving airship performance, unconventional designs, and economic considerations vital for commercial success.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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By JIRI BICHLER (Czech Republic, Europe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Airship Technology (Cambridge Aerospace Series) (Hardcover)
I would strongly recomend this book to those who are more interested in the Airship construction than in a history of airships itself. As an aerospace student, I've been looking for such a book for a long time. This book brings very sensitively all basic (and more) information about the structure and design. I really recomend, it's worth that money.
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Excellent overview of airship theory,
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This review is from: Airship Technology (Cambridge Aerospace Series) (Paperback)
I work as an aeronautical engineer for a company that builds and sells airships and I can testify that this is an essential volume for airship enthusiasts and engineers. I use this book a lot as a good overview of the airship. For more technical detail though, Airship Design by Burgess is tops for rigid airships, Pressure Airships is another great one for the non-rigid type. Airship books come few and far between so definitely pick this one up.
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Rather than being a traditional textbook that covers the design of an aircraft from initial mission planning to detail design, Airship Technology is a collection of individually written chapters that cover in total the same breadth of material. This causes the tone to change from chapter to chapter due to the different authors, but each author is clearly an expert on the subject matter in the chapter and all write quite lucidly. Some understanding of fabric design and terminology (such as "gores") is assumed, but if you go into it blind like I did there are more than enough context clues to aid you. This is one of the few textbooks I've actually read cover-to-cover.
NOTE: It does emphasize blimp design rather than zeppelin design; this is because for most applications airships currently do blimps are the better choice. It does have some data on zeppelins, however.
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This book is intended as a technical guide to those interested in designing, building and flying the airship of today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
static heaviness, ballonet air, disposable lift, conventional airship, airship applications, current airships, ground handling party, heaviness condition, ballonet volume, aerostatic lift, airship pressure height, airship size, maximum heaviness, gross lift, pressure airship, subsidence mode, airship design, disposable ballast, lifting gas, heavy airship, smaller airships, ground handling crew, airship rises, modern airships, shear collar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Airship Industries, New York, Royal Aeronautical Society, New Scientist, Systems Technology Conf, Graf Zeppelin, Cranfield Institute of Technology, The Ronald Press Company, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Airship Conf, Count Zeppelin, Fishery Protection, Gas Transporter, Imperial War Museum, International Standard Atmosphere, Moderately Suitable, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Combining Equations, San Diego, Systems Conference, Terence Dalton Ltd, Textile Institute, The Airboat New!
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This book is intended as a technical guide to those interested in designing, building and flying the airship of today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
static heaviness, ballonet air, disposable lift, conventional airship, airship applications, current airships, ground handling party, heaviness condition, ballonet volume, aerostatic lift, airship pressure height, airship size, maximum heaviness, gross lift, pressure airship, subsidence mode, airship design, disposable ballast, lifting gas, heavy airship, smaller airships, ground handling crew, airship rises, modern airships, shear collar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Airship Industries, New York, Royal Aeronautical Society, New Scientist, Systems Technology Conf, Graf Zeppelin, Cranfield Institute of Technology, The Ronald Press Company, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Airship Conf, Count Zeppelin, Fishery Protection, Gas Transporter, Imperial War Museum, International Standard Atmosphere, Moderately Suitable, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Combining Equations, San Diego, Systems Conference, Terence Dalton Ltd, Textile Institute, The Airboat New!
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- Pressure Airships by Thomas L. Blakemore in Front Matter, page 209, and page 296
- Airship Design by Charles P Burgess in Front Matter, page 209, and page 296
- Flight Simulation (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by J. M. Rolfe in Front Matter
- Fluid Dynamic Drag by Hoerner on page 71
- Airplane Stability and Control: A History of the Technologies that Made Aviation Possible (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Malcolm J. Abzug in Front Matter
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- Low-Speed Aerodynamics (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Joseph Katz in Front Matter
- Introduction to Aircraft Design (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by John P. Fielding in Front Matter
- Large-Eddy Simulation for Acoustics (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Claus Wagner in Front Matter
- Automated Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Dr Wigbert Fehse in Front Matter
- Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines (Advances in Industrial Control) by Pedro Castillo Garcia in Back Matter
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