Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
The history of lighter-than-air vehicles is reviewed in terms of providing a background for the mission analysis and parametric analysis tasks. Data from past airships and airship operations are presented in the following areas: (1) parameterization of design characteristics; (2) markets, missions, costs, and operating procedures, (3) indices of efficiency for comparison; (4) identification of critical design and operational characteristics; and (5) definition of the 1930 state-of-the-art and the 1974 state-of-the-art from a technical and economic standpoint.
Keywords:
AERODYNAMICS
Type:
NASA-CR-137692-VOL-3
,
GER-16146-VOL-3
Format:
application/pdf
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