Engineering:Airship Development AD1
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Short description: British advertising airship
| AD1 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Non-rigid airship |
| National origin | United Kingdom |
| Manufacturer | Airship Development Company |
| First flight | 6 November 1929 |
| Number built | 1 |
The Airship Development AD1 was a British non-rigid gas-filled advertising airship.[1] The airship had a 60,000 cubic feet (1,700 m3) envelope made by the Reginald Foster Dagnall Company of Guildford.[1] The airship, registered G-FAAX,[2] was erected at the old Cramlington Airship Station near Newcastle where it was test flown on 6 November 1929.[1] It was powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) ABC Hornet four-cylinder piston engine mounted on a three-seater underslung car.[1]
The AD1 was used for advertising and had a 76 by 24 ft (23.2 by 7.3 m) panel on each side for messages.[1] It was dismantled after an accident in June 1931[3] when a storm tore it from its moorings and damaged the envelope.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 John A Bagley (October 1966). "The Balloon and Airship Register". Air-Britain Digest (Air-Britain) 18 (10): 260–261.
- ↑ "Aircraft Register G-FAAX". United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority. 21 November 2012. http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=FAAX.
- ↑ Austen 1999, p. 612
- ↑ "Ill-fated history of Britain's first private airship - BBC News". BBC. 5 January 2014. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-24934015.
Bibliography
- Michael Austen, ed (1999). The British Civil Aircraft Register 1919-1999. Tonbridge, Kent, England: Air-Britain. ISBN 0 85130 281 5.
- "Enterprise in Modern Advertising", Flight: 847, 1 August 1930, http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1930/untitled0%20-%200922.html
- "The AD.l. Non-Rigid Airship", Flight: 1182, 8 November 1929, http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1929/1929-1%20-%201541.html
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