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This comprehensive guide (second edition) 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 airships. 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) 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 new edition introduces nine new chapters and includes significant revisions and updates to five of the original chapters.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Transport technology & trades Aerospace & aviation technology

• Full title: Airship Technology
• Author: Gabriel Alexander Khoury
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 768
• EAN: 9781107019706
• ISBN: 1107019702
• ID: 01211673
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 1604 g
• Dimensions: 256 × 180 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. February 2012

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