Airship technology
By: [edited by] Gabriel Alexander Khoury
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Cambridge aerospace series -- 10
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9781107019706
Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General); Airships; Design and construction
Description: "This comprehensive guide to modern airship design and operation, written by world experts, is the only up-to-date book on airship technology intended as a technical guide to those interested in studying, designing, building, flying, and operating airship. In addition to basic airship principles, the book covers conventional and unconventional design in a panoramic and in-depth manner focusing on four themes: (1) basic principles such as aerostatics, aerodynamics, propulsion, materials and structures, stability and control, mooring and ground handling, and piloting and meteorology; (2) different airship types including conventional (manned and unmanned), hot air, solar powered, and hybrid; (3) airship applications including surveillance, tourism, heavy lift, and disaster and humanitarian relief; and (4) airship roles and economic considerations. This second edition introduces nine new chapters and includes significant revisions and updates to five of the original chapters"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Gabriel Alexander Khoury; 2. Basic principles Edwin Mowforth; 3. Aerodynamics Ian Cheeseman; 4. Stability and control Michael V. Cook; 5. Propulsion Ian Cheeseman; 6. Materials S. Islam and Peter Bradley; 7. Structures Charles Luffman; 8. Aerostatics John Craig; 9. Weight estimates and control John Craig; 10. Systems Norman Mayer; 11. Mooring Denis Howe; 12. Ground handling G. Camplin; 13. Meteorology Martin Harris; 14. Piloting David Burns; 15. Performance Robert Hunt; 16. Improvements Edwin Mowforth; 17. Design synthesis B. G Wilson; 18. Roles and economic considerations Reginald Hillsdon; 19. Unconventional designs Gabriel Alexander Khoury; 20. Solar power Gabriel Alexander Khoury; 21. Zeppelin NT design B. Straeter; 22. Unmanned airships L. Eversfield; 23. Hot-air airships Karl Ludwig Busemeyer; 24. Human powered airships R. Knotts; 25. Heavy lift airships Gabriel Alexander Khoury, Edwin Mowforth, and I. Shaefer; 26. Aerodynamic aspects of hybrid air vehicles Ken Nipress.