TYPES OF AIRSHIP 2 RIGID AIRSHIP 2 NONRIGID AIRSHIP 3 HISTORY OF
RIGID AIRSPS 3 HISTORY OF NONRIGID AIRSHIPS 4 AIRSHIPS TODAY 5
HINDENBURG DISASTER 7 An airship is a type of lighter-than-air
aircraft with propulsion and steering systems, it is used to
carry passengers and cargo. It obtains its buoyancy from the
presence of a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium.
The first airship was developed by the French, called a ballon
dirigible, it could be steered and could also be flown against
the wind. TYPES OF AIRSHIP Two basic types of airship have been
developed: the rigid airship, the shape of which is fixed by its
internal structure; and the nonrigid blimp, which depends on the
pressure created by a series of air diaphragms inside its gas
space to maintain the shape of its fabric hull. Inventors sought
to combine the best features of these models in a semirigid
type, but it met with only limited success. Today only the
nonrigid airship is used. The rigid airship's structure
resembled a cage that encl