A thermal airship is an airship that generates buoyancy by heating air in a large chamber or envelope. The lower density of interior hot air compared to cool ambient air causes an upward force on the envelope.

Hot-air airships typically cost less to buy and maintain than modern helium-based blimps, and can be quickly deflated after flights. This makes them easy to carry in trailers or trucks and inexpensive to store.

This website intends to become, in time, the world's foremost collection and gallery of hot air airship history and current information.

Mar 2, 2018 · After the invention of the hot air balloon in 1783, a French officer named Meusnier envisioned an airship that utilized the design of the hot air balloon but was able to be navigated. In 1784, he designed an airship that had an elongated envelope, propellers, and a …

Hot Air Airships, also known as Thermal Airships, offer a phantastic compromise between the ease of use common to hot air balloons and the maneuvrability of real airships. Basically, they are elongated hot air balloons with a propulsion engine and added tail fins and rudders.

In 1993 the first Lindstrand hot air airship was constructed, the immense AS300. At 300,000 cubic feet (8,500m3), it was, and still is, the world's largest hot air airship. It was designed and built as a replacement envelope for the T&C AS-261, and the AS300 continues in the same role to this day.

WHAT IS A THERMAL AIRSHIP? Cameron Balloons invented the hot-air airship in 1972, and the latest generation of these eye-catching promotional craft incorporates further enhancements including a new engine, ergonomic improvements to the passenger cabin, and increased fuel system flexibility.

The hot air airship was invented by Don Cameron (UK) of Cameron Balloons fame in the early seventies. After three years of development, the first prototype, G-xxxx, was presented to the public at the Icicle Meet in January 1973.

lift gas and hot air. With helium alone the airship was semi-buoyant (heavier-than-air). Buoyancy was managed by controlling the heating and cooling of air in a “thermal volume” that made up a large fraction of the volume of the broad, saucer-shaped …

Cameron Balloons invented the hot-air airship in 1972, and the latest generation of these eye-catching promotional craft incorporates up to 100 square meters of high visibility advertising space on each side of a hull.