Airship - 14 CFR 1.1
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Airship means an engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered.
Airship Frame Construction. The rigid airship, because of its bulkhead system, in which the lifting gas is carried in 16 to 20 cells, has a much greater safety factor than the types in which the gas is carried in only one or two containers.
Lana's Airship by Robert Tressell
This proposition, although impracticable, is remarkable as containing the principle of the balloon as we know it today, and as showing the idea prevalent at that time, that the atmosphere was of no great height, ...
Category:Airship configurations
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Balloons and Airships of the Nineteenth Century
Following the flight of the Montgolfier in 1783, ballooning advanced throughout the 1800s, becoming popular worldwide by mid-century.
Airships (Blimps & Dirigibles)
Like balloons, airships use hot air and/or lighter-than-air gases to generate lift.
Rigid Airship: An airship which has a rigid framework to maintain the shape of the hull.
Rip Cord: A manually operated device which withdraws a parachute from its pack.
AIRSHIP - A powered lighter-than-air craft.
AIRSPEED - The speed of an aircraft through the air, relative to the air mass in which it is moving.
AIRSHIP
means an engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered
AIRSPEED
The speed of an aircraft relative to its surrounding air mass. See: calibrated airspeed; indicated airspeed; true airspeed.
(g) For an airship rating. A person who applies for a private pilot certificate with a lighter-than-air category and airship class rating must log at least: ...
A steam powered airship was flown over Paris by Henri Giffard.
1853
Sir George Cayley built a glider in which his coachman flew across a valley in Yorkshire.
Ratings are more complex than this limited explanation -- for example, Rotorcraft come in two flavors, Helicopter and Gyroplane; Lighter-than-Air aircraft come in two flavors, Free Balloon and Airship; ...
Dirigibles are also known as airships or blimps. The gas in dirigibles, helium, is lighter than air and is not flammable, as the Hindenburg disaster proved that airships and flammable gases is not a good idea.
LIGHT SPORT AIRCRAFT - Special FAA certification class (LSA) for an aircraft other than a helicopter or powered-lift"single-engine aircraft, airship, balloon, GLIDER, GYROCOPTER, ROTORCRAFT, weight-shift-control aircraft.
Examples include: single engine; multiengine; land; water; gyroplane; helicopter; airship; and free balloon; and (2) As used with respect to the certification of aircraft, ...
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