Talk:Airship Industries Skyship 600

message: If you use 4/3 Pi R1 R2 R3 to calculate the volume of the airship you will get 16,726 m3.  This is more than twice the 7,600m3 given.  Now I know the thing is not a perfect elipsoid, but I would expect something closer than this. Therefore I have added a fact template to the article.Mike Young (talk) 12:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Volume of the ship

message: The article states that the ship was initially powered by " Porsche 930 turboshafts," I've never heard of this engine, and suspect it's actually referring to the 6-cylinder turbocharged engine from the Porsche 930, which was developed into the Porsche PFM 3200. Does anyone have further information on this engine? Maury (talk) 18:29, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turboshaft? 

message: Shouldn't the title be "Airship Industries Skyship 600" per Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(aircraft)? (I'm open to reasons why it shouldn't). Grover Snodd (talk) 18:24, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved it - bold but I epxect no problems. GraemeLeggett (talk) 15:57, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title 

message: According to the website, the company is now Skyship Services Inc. By the way, do they build new Skyship 600s anymore? --ilaiho (talk) 21:29, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New company 

message: Under Airship Industries its says:
"Although ATG received two orders for the Skyship 600B, a higher-performance version of the 600, in its early years, it sold the type certificate for the 600 to Julian Benscher of Global Skyship."
Also in the article it says that 10 were built.  I take it that they don't make 600's any more.  This article doesn't make it very clear that this is a model, not a one-off.  Nor does it say anything about the seperate specimen's histories and whereabouts etc.
- I know one could BE BOLD but I know nothing about this.
Actually, I going to be the WikiDragon I am and stick the above in anyway!
IceDragon64 (talk) 23:06, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Successor and other info 

message: 1. The Zeppelin NT-07 is now the largest airship in commercial service. The Aeoscraft rigid airship, now in flight test, is the largest currently flying. Other larger ones have flown in recent years.
2. The envelope is not kevlar. It is as now described in the article. The gondola (car) is kevlar-reinforced, and the suspension cables are kevlar.
3. The description of the thrust vectoring system and its purpose has been made more precise.
4. No Skyship 600 ever flew with a fly-by-light control system. The Sentinel 1000, built and flown by Westinghouse Airship Industries as a flight test model for the US Naval Airship Program (zero-funded by the US Congress in 1993), comprised a Skyship 600 gondola and an envelope that was a 1/2 linear (1/8 volume) aerodynamic model of the proposed YEZ-2A airship envelope. It was equipped with a Marconi fly-by-light (FBL) flight control system with electrical actuators. In order to protect from lightning strike and electrical interference, power for the actuators at the tail surfaces was provided pneumatically through plastic tubing to pneumatically-powered electrical generators at each actuator.
5. The Specifications given were for the Skyship 600B. I have replaced them with Skyship 600 specs.
- My credentials: retired lighter-than-air flight test engineer & consultant. Worked on the Naval Airship Program, and flew the Skyship 600 a number of times.John Taylor 20:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections 

message: One Skyship 600 was used for promotional purposes under the name "Spirit of Dubai" for only part of its career, and the promotion was some time ago now. There seems to have been no particular lasting notability for it under this name. Accordingly, it doesn't really warrant a standalone article and what encylopaedic content is in the Spirit of Dubai article should be merged here. GraemeLeggett (talk) 19:13, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree Graeme, but Spirit of Dubai was such a short contract compared to most of the other advertising customers, that it does not warrant more than a sentence or two. I may be able to get a complete listing of the customers of all the Skyships from a contact in the UK. I'll see what I can do. John Taylor (talk) 19:40, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge - As already noted this airship only spent a small period of time with that name and does not represent a variant, or even sub-variant, of the original airship.--Petebutt (talk) 14:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done!--Petebutt (talk) 17:19, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge [[Spirit of Dubai]] to this article 

message: I'm new to wikipedia editing, and I can't figure how to enter the citation for the specs that I had updated. http://www.skyshipservices.com/images/Skyship%20Magazine.pdf can be used. This is the same document as reference [7], but since Airship Management Services is no longer in business (following the death of owner George Spyrou, the family sold the assets to Julian Benscher's Global Skyship, now trading as Skyship Services), ref [7] should be changed to this link too.  John Taylor (talk) 16:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:Cite will lead you to the information you need. The way referencing works, is that there should be enough information so that the reference could be checked, even if the source is no longer available. That there is a link helps. I will make the edit - though it will look a bit esoteric until you get the hang of templates and the like. GraemeLeggett (talk) 18:17, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations and References