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and elevator control surfaces for yaw and pitch. The undercarriage consists of a castoring twin-wheeled oleo-pneumatic strut at the rear of the gondola, with ground handling ropes for ground crew to manoeuvre the airship on the ground. The nose-cone of the envelope also carries the mooring point which can connect to a mobile mooring mast.
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The
Skyship 500 consists of a polyester fabric envelope, retaining helium gas, and carrying a gondola for the control cabin, passenger cabin, propulsion systems and ballast (fixed and jettison-able). The envelope is of a traditional streamlined shape with cruciform tail surfaces which carry rudder
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The moulded FRP gondola houses the control cabin, passenger cabin, power-plant systems and ballast (both fixed and jettison-able). Large windows to the front and sides provide excellent visibility for crew and passengers seated on five individual seats and a three abreast bench seat at the rear.
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in March 1978 but it was not flown until 3 February 1979, due to various problems with certification and the power-plant. On 8 March 1979, whilst moored outside the hangar, a storm blew up unexpectedly, preventing the airship from being moved into the hangar. The nose cone was damaged and the
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Skyship 500s also carried out Sky-cruises and were used as advertising billboards using light arrays. The 1987 Sky-cruise programme offered a schedule of 700 flights in a season (from March to
October). Demand for the programme was so high that all flights were sold out within 72 hours.
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Aerospace
Developments began the design of a new non-rigid airship in the 1970s, intended to carry out civil and paramilitary roles, such as aerial advertising, promotional and pleasure flying, surveillance and maritime patrol duties.
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tail-rotor gearboxes. The pilot and co-pilot seated at the front of the cabin have a full set of instruments and avionics and control the airship through yokes which operate the control surfaces though cables.
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In the years 1980-1990 the 6 Skyship 500 airships were used worldwide, not only for advertising but also for security and passenger sky-cruises over major cities.
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The AD500 introduced new materials and technology to airship manufacture and operations. Materials used in the ship included thin single-ply
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A single prototype airship produced by
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With the formation of
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HO-V 155 A-R reversible pitch propeller in a vectorable duct (90° up, 120° down), 1.372 m (4 ft 6 in) diameter
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2 Ă— Porsche 930/01/AI/3 cylinder horizontally-opposed, normally aspirated piston engines, 152 kW (204 hp) each
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Most other structural components are produced from fibre-reinforced composite materials, to reduce weight, including
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for the cables suspending the gondola from the top of the envelope; a Kevlar nose-cone moulded in the same manner as
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from Kevlar-reinforced plastic. Other innovations featured in the AD500 included simplified controls and
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One of the five production airships was modified into a heavy payload version, designated
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A single high payload airship, using a
Skyship 600 envelope with a Skyship 500 gondola.
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arranged the first overseas charter, using JA-1003, which was delivered in March 1984.
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is a non-rigid airship designed and built in the United
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ducted reversible-pitch propellers through lateral drive-shafts and converted
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A Skyship 500 was used as a camera and surveillance platform at the
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A larger higher performance airship derived from the
Skyship 500.
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engines inside the rear of the gondola driving the vectoring
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FAA Type
Certificate Data Sheet for Skycruiser Skyship 500HL
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545 L (144.0 US gal; 119.9 imp gal)
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513 kg (1,131 lb) of water in tanks in the gondola
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The polyester fabric envelope is coated on the outside with
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to bring the concept to production as the Skyship 500.
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ducted fans driven by inboard-mounted Porsche engines.
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Assembly of the prototype AD500 began at No.1 Hangar
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envelope was deflated using the emergency rip cord.
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254:Power for the Skyship 500 comes from two converted
741:"World News: Aerospace Developments loses support"
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603:. London: Jane's Information Group. p. 660.
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429:5,153 m (182,000 cu ft) gross
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385:Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988-89
130:The Skyship 500 was developed from the
49:A 1983 Photo of the Skyship 500 at the
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694:Velupillai, David (24 February 1979).
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670:. London: Jane's Information Group.
473:2.41 m (7 ft 10.9 in)
467:9.24 m (30 ft 3.8 in)
717:Wilson, Michael (15 January 1977).
485:1.96 m (6 ft 5.2 in)
479:4.2 m (13 ft 9.4 in)
423:18.66 m (61 ft 3 in)
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411:52 m (170 ft 7 in)
185:Although regarded as a success,
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696:"AD500: the commercial airship"
900:Airships of the United Kingdom
849:Airship Industries Skyship 600
844:Airship Industries Skyship 500
662:John W.R. Taylor, ed. (1987).
599:John W.R. Taylor, ed. (1988).
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447:1,260 kg (2,780 lb)
441:4,500 kg (9,900 lb)
228:degradation and lined with a
910:Twin-engined pusher aircraft
905:Aircraft first flown in 1981
378:Specifications (Skyship 500)
324:Naval Air Development Center
132:Aerospace Developments AD500
51:Naval Air Development Center
915:Ducted fan-powered aircraft
867:Airship Management Services
295:Games of the XXIII Olympiad
243:board used to build up the
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719:"Britain's export airship"
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27:British non-rigid airship
245:fibre reinforced plastic
164:glass-reinforced plastic
920:Cruciform tail aircraft
751:(3668): 3. 7 July 1979.
390:General characteristics
299:Los Angeles, California
230:Polyvinylidene chloride
112:6 (including 1x AD500)
638:"SkyShip 500 / AD 500"
126:Design and development
745:Flight International
723:Flight International
700:Flight International
445:Max disposable load:
804:Hybrid Air Vehicles
439:Max gross gas lift:
282:Operational history
191:Thermo-Skyships Ltd
158:, for the envelope;
828:Airship Industries
642:airshipsonline.com
453:Emergency ballast:
328:NAS Patuxent River
320:United States Navy
195:Airship Industries
94:28 September 1981
85:Airship Industries
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18:Skytrain 500
507:Performance
495:Propellers:
489:Powerplant:
369:Skyship 600
349:Skyship 500
297:in 1984 at
276:Skyship 600
201:Skyship 500
120:Skyship 500
894:Categories
573:References
532:Endurance:
303:James Bond
224:to reduce
187:Aerovision
179:Cardington
102:1980-1990
840:Products
836:Alan Bond
647:27 August
560:, Omega,
497:5-bladed
415:Diameter:
403:Capacity:
383:Data from
322:, at the
241:Fibre-lam
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148:polyester
99:Produced
811:Products
546:Avionics
534:12 hours
499:Hoffmann
338:Variants
332:Maryland
326:(NADC),
288:Fujifilm
260:Hoffmann
193:to form
860:Related
427:Volume:
421:Height:
409:Length:
154:-doped
61:Airship
53:(NADC)
879:SkyCat
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526:Range:
343:AD 500
234:Helium
160:Kevlar
397:Crew:
305:film
138:AD500
58:Role
672:ISBN
649:2014
605:ISBN
216:(TiO
118:The
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562:VOR
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