Airship/External Links

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General

• Airship Home Page - Provides a list of airship related websites. Also contains airship mailing list.
• Airship and Blimp Resources - This site focuses more on how to build your own airship with a particular focus on hot air airships (also known as "hotships")
• Airships Mailing List - A forum for the discussion and design of lighter-than-air craft.
• Airship: DJ's Zeppelin Page - Provides photographs of and ephemera from airships

Associations

• The Airship Association - British based association for people interested in all things to do with airships.
• Lighter than Air Society - US based association for people interested in all things to do with airships.
• The Association of Balloon and Airship Constructors - Maintains an extensive technical library on airship technology old and new.

Historical

• Navy Lakehurst Historical Society - airship history with a focus on activities at the historically most active airship base in the US.
• Airships Online - website of the Airships Heritage Trust. It contains an extensive history relating British Airships from 1900 to the present day.
• US Navy Airship History
• Harold G. Dick Airship Collection - biography of Harold G. Dick
• Postcards from Harold G. Dick Airship Collection
• The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: The Collection of Harold G. Dick
• US Centennial of Flight Commission
• Simine's U.S. Aviation Patent Database US Aviation Patent Database, 1799-1909
• Zeppelin in Brazil - Images

Manufacturers and commercial operators

• Airship Association Net Links Page for a comprehensive list of companies throughout the world focusing on the development of airships.
• Airship Management Services — Operators of several type-certified airships including the Fuji Blimp. These aircraft were originally built by the Westinghouse Corporation with the designation Skyship 600. They also own and operate a sightseeing airship in Switzerland under the name Skycruiser Switzerland
• Airship Asia Company making helium airships in Thailand
• American Blimp Corporation In association with The Lightships Group, this company builds and operates the world's largest fleet of airships.
• Augur Aerostatic Systems — Russian company making both gas and hot air airships
• Cameron Airships — Hot air airships manufactured by Cameron Balloon - the world's largest manufacturer of hot air balloons.
• GEFA-FLUG GmbH - The Air Company — makers of hot air airships
• The Goodyear Blimps — The most famous modern airships, owned and operated by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
• Lindstrand Airships — Hot air airships manufactured by hot air balloon company Lindsrand, a subsidiary of Cameron Balloon.
• RosAero — Russian airship company that makes both Helium and hot air airships
• WDL -- a German airship that also operates heavier-than-air aircraft
• Worldwide Aeros Corp. — Aeros is an lighter-than-air (LTA) aircraft manufacturing company. The company's operations involve the research, development, production, operation and marketing of a family of Aeros-branded air vehicles used in government and commercial applications. These include non-rigid FAA Type Certified Aeros 40D Sky Dragon Airship (blimp), Advanced Tethered Aerostats and New Type Rigid Air Vehicle - Aeroscraft.
• Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH — The Zeppelin Company and the Zeppelin NT.

High-profile flights

• Total Pole Airship Planned expedition over the polar ice cap in a RosAero Au 30

Experiments, prototypes and one-offs

• 21st Century Airships Inc. Developers of spherical, finless airships.
• USA Airships
• White Dwarf — A small, human-powered airship
• Zeppy — Human powered airship. Website in French.
• Voliris — French company that has built a small 2 person ship.
• Electroplume 250 — a small, one person electrically driven airship. Website in French.
• Dendronautics — This group, led by Graham Dorrington, has developed several 1 and 2 person electric-motor-powered airships specifically focused on rain forest canopy access. One of these ships was the subject of the Werner Herzog documentary "The White Diamond" in 2004.
• Operation L’Alize — A lenticularly shaped airship
• Personal Blimp — A hot air airship with a ribbed envelope structure.
• Santo2006 - A Roziere (helium and hot air) airship used for rain forest canopy access. There is also a technical write-up in English.

Designs under development

• Aeroscraft - heavy lift air vehicle by the Worldwide Aeros Corp.
• Lockheed-Martin HAA Project
• Sanswire Stratellite
• Dynalifter - Hybrid airship under development from 2003 thru 2006. Prototype developed through the point of taxi tests. As of May 2007 no further work was expected. The company has not stated publicly its reason for not testing the prototype further.
• JP Aerospace - Building very large V-shaped airships to fly to 140,000 feet

Proposed designs

• Vertical Airships
• Airship Holland
• Nagy High Speed Airship
• Millennium Airship
• Quantum Aerostatics
• Hybrid Aircraft Corporation
• Advanced Hybrid Aircraft
• Zeppelin Europe Tours — Group proposing airship tours in Europe. Despite the similar name, the group has no direct connection with the present day Zeppelin company.
• New Scientist — High-tech blimps could soon provide Hubble-like views of the sky at a small fraction of the cost of a space-based mission.
• Stratxx — proposed high altitude airship
• air genie - proposed spherical airships covered with LED video displays
• Varialift - proposed "variable lift" airship. The lift control mechanism is not identified on their website.
• StratoStar - proposed high altitude communications platform

Recently defunct projects

• World Skycat Ltd. - A company marketing the Skycat aircraft being developed by Advanced Technologies Group (see next item.)
• Advanced Technologies Group Until August of 2005, when it went into receivership, this company was developing a range of products such as UAV's - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, heavier-than-air airships and HAPS' - High Altitude Platform Stations for telecommunication. The assets of the company were purchased by an unnamed Italian group in Spring of 2006. The future of the company remains uncertain.