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Zeppelin NT ("Neue Technologie", German for new technology) is an airship type that has been manufactured since the 1990s by the German company Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (ZLT) in Friedrichshafen. Download high resolution version (888x552, 29 KB)This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ...
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USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship or dirigible is a buoyant lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
Friedrichshafen is a town on the northern side of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria. ...
This company can be considered the successor of the companies founded by Ferdinand von Zeppelin which constructed and operated the very successful Zeppelin airships in the first third of the 20th century. There are, however, a number of notable differences between the Zeppelin NT and the dirigibles of those days, as well as between the Zeppelin NT and usual non-rigid airships known as blimps. Zeppelin Ferdinand von Zeppelin Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 – March 8, 1917) was the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. ...
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Blimp can refer to: a non-rigid airship as opposed to a rigid airship (e. ...
Technology The Zeppelin NT airships constructed so far are 75 m long, with a volume of 8,225 m³. They are thus considerably smaller than the old Zeppelins. Furthermore, they are inflated exclusively with the non-flammable noble gas helium. Neon, like all noble gases, has a full valence (outermost) electron shell. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number helium, He, 2 Chemical series noble gases Group, Period, Block 18, 1, s Appearance colorless Standard atomic weight 4. ...
In standard operations with a maximum payload, the gas cells do not create enough buoyancy to make the whole ship "lighter-than-air." The negative buoyancy is overcome with engine power. The buoyancy can change when traveling with reduced payload and partially emptied fuel tanks, but usually the Zeppelin NT flies with a net downward force of about 3,000 N (306 kg). In physics, buoyancy is the upward force on an object produced by the surrounding fluid (i. ...
Some have erroneously described the design as a hybrid airship. However that term is most often used only for aircraft that use aerodynamic forces to carry at least 40% of the total aircraft weight. The aircraft is most accurately characterized as an airship that uses vectored thrust to compensate for its static heaviness. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...
Thrust vectoring is the ability of an aircraft to direct the thrust from its main engine(s) in a direction other than parallel to the aircrafts length. ...
The Zeppelin NT is a semi-rigid airship. It is unlike both the original Zeppelins that had a rigid skeleton and non-rigid blimps. It has an internal triangular truss made of graphite-reinforced plastic and three longitudinal girders made of aluminium which connect the triangular elements along the length of the frame. This frame holds the engines, control car and the steering fins. Additionally, this structure is tightened with aramid cords. It weighs only about 1,000 kg (2,200 pounds). In architecture and structural engineering, a truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units which are constructed with straight slender members whose ends are connected at joints. ...
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General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Standard atomic weight 26. ...
Aramid fiber (1961) is a fire-resistant and strong synthetic fiber. ...
The company's marketing materials repeatedly, and incorrectly, refer to the aircraft as a rigid airship. This usage has led to some confusion in media reports. Construction of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 1923, showing the framework of a rigid airship. ...
Hull Inside the hull of the historical Zeppelins the gas cells were separate entities. However the hull of the Zeppelin NT serves both as the hull and as the gas cell. It is made of a three-layered laminate: one gas-tight layer of Tedlar (PVF), one polyester fabric layer to provide stability and one polyurethane layer suitable for thermic welding that serves to connect the separate laminate panels. Laminate flooring Laminated core transformer A laminate is a material constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. ...
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To preserve its outer form, a slight overpressure of about 5 millibar is maintained within the hull. As in blimps, this pressure is kept constant by using ballonets. The ballonets have a total volume of 2,000 m³. Blimp can refer to: a non-rigid airship as opposed to a rigid airship (e. ...
Propulsion and steering Three propeller engines of the type Textron Lycoming IO-360 with a power of 147 kW (200 metric hp) each provide the Zeppelin NT with excellent maneuverability. Two lateral engines, equipped with tilting propellers and usually aligned horizontally, can be turned 90° upward or 30° downward. The aft engine powers a pushing propeller that can be turned 90° downward, as well as a steering propeller directed to the side and working similarly to the lateral-thrust units of some ships. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Instead of four rudder and elevator fins, the Zeppelin NT uses only three, which saves weight. As a side effect, the loss of one fin can be compensated with the remaining two.
The controls are implemented by fly-by-wire technology, with the pilot using a joystick to steer in three dimensions. A flight control system consists of the flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkage, and necessary operating mechanisms to control aircraft in flight The basic fundamentals of aircraft controls has been explained in aeronautics. ...
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Flying capabilities The design currently has a range of some 900 km (500 nautical miles) and reaches top speeds of 125 km/h (70 nautical mph or 78 mph). The standard cruising speed of 70 km/h for tourist flights can be attained using the rear propeller only. Standard operational altitude is 300 m (1000 ft), but up to 2,600 m (8,500 ft) is possible. Their maximum permitted takeoff weight is 10,690 kg, with a payload of 1,900 kg. Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ...
The Zeppelin NT is able to start and land vertically. Only three helpers are required on the ground.
Capacity The Zeppelin NT has a passenger capacity of 12, plus 2 crew, or the capability to lift 1,900 kg of payload.
Range of application Since August 15, 2001 the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (German for German Zeppelin shipping company) has successfully offered joyrides with Zeppelin NT airships. The hull surfaces are marketed as advertising space. The DZR was founded as a subsidiary of the ZLG in January 2001. is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
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The craft are also used as observation platforms for photographers and television commentators covering major events.
Due to their capability for long low-vibration flight (up to 24 hours), the ZLG also considers the airships well-suited to research missions for environmental observations, troposphere research or prospecting natural resources. Atmosphere diagram showing the mesosphere and other layers. ...
Project history The modern development and construction was financed from an endowment, initially funded with money left over from the earlier Zeppelin company, that had been under the trusteeship of the Mayor of Friedrichshafen. A stipulation on the endowment limited use of its funds to the field of airships. Over the many years, the investment value of the endowment grew to a point where the time seemed right to use it for the design, development, and construction of a new Zeppelin.
The initial design study was prepared in 1989. The ZLT was founded as a spin-off of the Zeppelin company in September 1993. It began to construct a prototype in 1995. The prototype first took to the air in September 1997. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with prototyping. ...
On July 2, 2000, the centennial of the first Zeppelin flight, the prototype SN 01 was christened D-LZFN Friedrichshafen. Subsequently, it traveled some 3,600 km in test flights. is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This is an article about Zeppelin airships. ...
In 2001 the company began manufacturing the Zeppelin NT in series and began to exploit the airships commercially. The second ship SN 02 was christened D-LZZR Bodensee on August 10, 2001 and started to give joyrides five days later. By the end of that year, it had already transported 3222 passengers, a figure that rose to about 30,000 by November 2003. is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
During the Oktoberfest of 2002 a Zeppelin NT was used for radio experiments in connection with the European Galileo positioning system project for the German Aerospace Center and the ESA. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
The Galileo positioning system, referred to simply as Galileo, is a planned Global Navigation Satellite System, to be built by the European Satellite Navigation Industries for the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA) as an alternative to the United States operated Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian...
DLR Helicopter The German Aerospace Center (DLR) (German: ) is the national research center for aviation and space flight of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Space Agency. ...
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The third Zeppelin NT SN 03 was designated D-LZZF and first flew in February 2003.
The Friedrichshafen is intended to be used for training pilots, for special flights and for presentations. All further ships will be used commercially or sold. As a tribute to the days of Zeppelin mail, a number of mail-carrying flights are planned. Cover sent from Chemnitz, Germany to Sausalito, California on the first North American flight of the Hindenburg, 6-9 May 1936. ...
On March 2, 2004 the ZLT sold a Zeppelin NT for the first time; SN 02 was acquired by the Japanese Nippon Airship Corporation and was transferred in June 2004, and was to follow the historical route of the 1929 World Tour of the famous dirigible LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin". After problems with Russian authorities a special ship for huge parts from the Netherlands was chartered and the Zeppelin was shipped from Italy to Japan by sea. The company intends to use the airship mainly for joyrides and advertising. is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Graf Zeppelin, filled with abundant hydrogen, circumnavigated the globe. ...
A Zeppelin NT was also used in the Athens 2004 Olympics, as an additional surveillance security measure. The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics were the 28th Summer Olympic Games. ...
Steve Fossett and Paul Stroehle set the current speed record for airships over a distance of one kilometer on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 in Friedrichshafen, Germany with a Zeppelin NT. The new world record was set to 111.8 km/h (69.5 mph or 60.4 knots), an improvement of 19 km/h. Steve Fossett Steve Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a United States aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world records. ...
is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Friedrichshafen is a town on the northern side of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria. ...
It also announced plans to build a larger, 19 seat aircraft. The ship is expected to start commercial flights in the Autumn of 2008. This larger model is to be called the NT14. The "14" comes from the 14,000 cubic meters of envelope volume.
Since late 2005 the prototype Zeppelin NT, D-LZFN Friedrichshafen, has been based in Jwaneng, a diamond mining town in southern Botswana, where it is conducting an airborne geophysical survey on behalf of De Beers Prospecting Botswana. The airship was moved from Amsterdam to Cape Town by ship and then flown to Gaborone where a Lockheed Martin full tensor gravity gradiometer was installed. This instrument, owned and operated by Bell Geospace, measures changes in the Earth's gravity field associated with geological density variations. The technology is based on accelerometers and the data quality is sensitive to the turbulence and motion usually associated with fixed wing aircraft installatons. The airship, flying slowly at night in relatively cool calm air, provides a very stable and vibrationaly quiet platform. The resulting data is capable of revealing the rather faint gravity signals associated with Kimberlite pipes buried under the Kalahari sands. This article is about the gemstone. ...
Hewn kimberlite core sample from the James Bay Lowlands region of Northern Ontario, Canada. ...
The Kalahari Desert is a large, arid to semi-arid sandy area in southern Africa that covers about 500,000 km². It covers 70% of Botswana, and parts of Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. ...
In January 2006 the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH announced building a fourth Zeppelin NT07 with an expected completion date of sometime in 2008. NT07 #4 was optioned by California based Airship Ventures in Spring 2007. [1].
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