FEASIBILITY STUDY OF MODERN AIBSHIPS Phase Ⅰ VOLUME Ⅰ – SUMMARY AND MISSION ANALYSIS (TASK Ⅱ AND Ⅳ)

摘要

The history, potential mission application, and designs of lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicles were researched and evaluated to determine if there were combinations of transportation missions and airship concepts that became sufficiently attractive on the basis of the specified figure of merit (ton-miles per hour) to warrant more detailed study in Phase II.nThe historical overview, presented in Reference 1, complies the background of lighter-than-air activity from the pre-World War I period to 1961. The information includes missions, markets, classes of airship configuration, operating procedures, and costs utilized in the mission analysis task.