Accession Number:

AD0776363

Title:

Return to Lighter-Than-Air Transportation for Military and Civilian Application

Descriptive Note:

Student study rept.

Corporate Author:

DEFENSE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT SCHOOL FORT BELVOIR VA

Personal Author(s):

• Stepler, Richard M.

Report Date:

1973-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

56.0

Abstract:

The United States aerospace community has entered an era characterized by declining activity, due largely to the increasing complexity and cost of aerospace systems. Industry and Government are engaged in a search for air vehicles that will carry increasingly larger payloads at reduced cost and levels of pollution, and that will not require vast expanses of land from which to operate. To this end, the dirigible rigid airship, a versatile and ecologically clean transportation system which offers exceptional payload capability, endurance, range and flight stability, may be given renewed consideration.

Descriptors:

• *CIVIL AVIATION
• *MILITARY TRANSPORTATION
• *AIRSHIPS
• PAYLOAD
• COST EFFECTIVENESS
• AIR POLLUTION
• FEASIBILITY STUDIES
• FLIGHT
• LANDING FIELDS
• AIR TRANSPORTATION

Subject Categories:

• Lighter-than-air Aircraft

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE