2. Santos-Dumont was the most accomplished aviator around the world who
initiated the step to make a hybrid airship in 1905 His first airship was named
as “number 14” but it proved unfeasible after the experiment on it to check
its effectiveness The reason of its failure was the design of its envelope
Realizing this problem, he developed this airship again with the name of “14
bis” (means number 14 again) This time Alberto Santos-Dumont succeeded
to make this airship, which was the first public heavier flight in the world
3. In 1986, another effort was made using 4 helicopters with the airship in order
to use it for heavy work This airship was named as Piasecki PA-97 Helistat
Later on, another airship was developed with the name of “Aereon 26 ” It
was basically a small scale prototype which was lighter than air craft The
development of Aereon 26 is mentioned in the book of "The Deltoid Pumpkin
Seed" written by John McPhee
4. The advance technology of hybrid airships were introduced in 2000 with the
name of “sky Kitten” (also referred as sky cat) Hybrid airships are intended
for heavy lifting of machinery or other material from one place to other If you
observe traditional airships, you will come to know that they have low
operating cost but they are limited in different ways for example they have low
speed low payload/volume ratios Moreover, they are very difficult to Virtual
Server Hosting handle while grounding them Whereas hybrid airships are
easy to control and one can easily trained for controlling a hybrid airship More
ever, they consume less energy for lifting heavy things from one place to other
5. Along with the benefits of hybrid airships, they have some disadvantages as
well One major disadvantage is that it needs a runway in order to take off and
for landing In addition, it is difficult to manage them due to their poor air
dynamic performance Hybrid airships are highly criticized by people and they
are referred to as "worst of both worlds ” But still we can’t ignore their
benefits for its utilization in shifting heavy things with less fuel consumption
6. Mostly hybrid airships use blending of vectored thrust and buoyancy Zeppelin
NT is one of the airships that uses vectored thrust and buoyancy for its flight
In 2005, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) initiated a
program for the exploration of this technology named as “WALRUS” which
was terminated in 2007 but their research can be utilized in further enhancing
the performance to hybrid airships A lot of corporations are involved in making
different hybrid airships with more efficiency The Hybrid Aircraft Corporation is
actively involved in the research for hybrid technology airships
7. World Sky Cat Ltd and Millennium Airship Corporation are also active for
making hybrid airships Recently, Worldwide Aeros Corporation designed an
airship with the name of “Aeroscraft” which can be utilized for body shapes,
vector thrust, and buoyancy control Experts believe that hybrid airships can be
improved using fewer resources in order to make them more effective
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