- Source: Aerostat (disambiguation)
An aerostat is an aircraft that remains aloft through the use of lighter-than-air gases. A narrower and more technical meaning refers only to tethered balloons.
Aerostat may also refer to:
Airships
Airships are powered aerostats:
Airship, or dirigible, any aerostat that can be manoeuvred through the air using propellers, rudders, etc.
Blimp, an airship with no structural framework, using only gas pressure to maintain its shape
Rigid airship, uses only a structural framework to maintain its shape
Semi-rigid airship, uses a partial structural framework in combination with gas pressure to maintain its shape
Balloons
Balloons are unpowered aerostats:
Balloon (aircraft)
Gas balloon
Hot air balloon
Vacuum balloon
= Tethered
=The term aerostat is sometimes used to refer specifically to tethered balloons:
Barrage balloon
Observation balloon
= Untethered
=Espionage balloon
Fire balloon
Hybrids
Hybrids combine aerostatic buoyancy and aerodynamic lift.
= Powered
=Hybrid airship
= Unpowered
=Kytoon
Other uses
Tethered Aerostat Radar System
Akashdeep Aerostat
RT Aerostats Systems
See also
All pages with titles beginning with aerostat
All pages with titles containing aerostat
Aerostatics
Balloon
Sky lantern
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Aerostat (disambiguation)
- Fat Albert (disambiguation)
- Newbery
- Airship (disambiguation)
- Akashdeep (disambiguation)
- Tars
- Aerostar
- Static lift
- Eugène Farcot
