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Aereon was an aircraft manufacturer specializing in hybrid airships. It was founded in Princeton, New Jersey in 1959. Aircraft *AEREON III *AEREON 26 *AEREON Dynairship The Aereon Dynairship is a conceptual large hybrid airship developed by the AEREON, Aereon Corporation for civilian and military cargo transport. It is one of Aereon's lifting body airship concepts, where a craft without a conventional "wing" gene ... * Aereon WASP External links Company websiteThe Atlantic update Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States Companies based in Princeton, New Jersey Airships of the United States Manufacturing companies established in 1959 1959 establishments in New Jersey {{aero-company-stub ...
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Hybrid Airship
A hybrid airship or plimp is a powered aircraft that obtains some of its lift as a lighter-than-air (LTA) airship and some from aerodynamic lift as a heavier-than-air aerodyne. A ''dynastat'' is a hybrid airship with fixed wings and/or a lifting body and is typically intended for long-endurance flights. It requires forward flight to create the aerodynamic lift component. A ''rotastat'' is a hybrid airship with rotary wings and is typically intended for heavy lift applications. Its rotary wings can provide lift even when hovering or manoeuvring vertically, like a helicopter. No production designs have been built, but several manned and unmanned prototypes have flown. The term "hybrid airship" has also been used to describe an airship comprising a mix of rigid, semi-rigid, and non-rigid construction. Features Conventional airships have low operating costs because they need no engine power to remain airborne, but are limited in several ways, including low payload/volume ratio ...
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of which are now defunct. Centrally located within the Raritan Valley region, Princeton is a regional commercial hub for the Central New Jersey region and a commuter town in the New York metropolitan area.New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area
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AEREON III
The AEREON III was an experimental hybrid airship of Rigid airship, rigid construction built by the AEREON, AEREON Corporation in the early 1960s. Of unconventional design, the airship featured three gas envelopes attached side-by-side, with the connecting structures shaped as airfoils to create extra lift as the craft moved forward. Intended as a small prototype craft that would precede the development of much larger hybrid airships, the ''AEREON III'' was constructed between 1959 and 1965 but was destroyed during taxiing tests in 1966 and scrapped without having flown. It was "the first rigid airship to be built since LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin, ''Graf Zeppelin II''". Background The AEREON Corporation had been founded in 1959 by Presbyterian minister and U.S. Naval Reserve chaplain turned airship enthusiast Monroe Drew and Navy airship veteran Lieutenant Commander John Fitzpatrick. The organization was named in honor of Solomon Andrews (inventor), Solomon Andrews's 1863 airship ''Ae ...
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AEREON 26
The AEREON 26 was an experimental aircraft developed to investigate lifting body design with a view to using its shape to create hybrid designs, part airship, part conventional aircraft. It was powered by a piston engine, driving a pusher propeller, and generated lift through the aerodynamics of its lozenge-shaped fuselage. Although results of flight tests conducted in 1971 were promising, funding for larger and semi-buoyant aircraft was not forthcoming at the time. The story of the test program was recounted by John McPhee in his book ''The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed'' (). This aircraft has a special place in UFO and conspiracy lore, since enthusiasts have drawn parallels between the shape of this aircraft and some reported UFOs from around the same era. Background The AEREON Corporation, established in 1959, at first concentrated on the construction of a prototype three-hull hybrid airship, the '' AEREON III''. Completed in 1965, the prototype was lost during taxiing tests the fo ...
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Aereon Dynairship
The Aereon Dynairship is a conceptual large hybrid airship developed by the AEREON, Aereon Corporation for civilian and military cargo transport. It is one of Aereon's lifting body airship concepts, where a craft without a conventional "wing" generates lift by itself. It would have also have been filled with buoyant gas such as preferably helium or hydrogen, but possibly heated gases, making it a truly hybrid craft. This kind of configuration was researched by Aereon beginning in the 1960s and continuing until the 1980s. Several patent applications were filed, including a patent application filed in 1969. The early development of the deltoid pumpkinseed aerobody was described in a John McPhee 1973 book. Design and development The Dynairship was to be a very large ship, the conceptual designs showing it to form a large triangle, with small finlets at the back of either end. The proof-of-concept aircraft for the Dynairship was the Aereon 26. Following the apparent success of this pr ...
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Aereon WASP
Aereon was an aircraft manufacturer specializing in hybrid airships. It was founded in Princeton, New Jersey in 1959. Aircraft *AEREON III *AEREON 26 *AEREON Dynairship The Aereon Dynairship is a conceptual large hybrid airship developed by the AEREON, Aereon Corporation for civilian and military cargo transport. It is one of Aereon's lifting body airship concepts, where a craft without a conventional "wing" gene ... * Aereon WASP External links Company websiteThe Atlantic update Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States Companies based in Princeton, New Jersey Airships of the United States Manufacturing companies established in 1959 1959 establishments in New Jersey {{aero-company-stub ...
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Defunct Aircraft Manufacturers Of The United States
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Companies Based In Princeton, New Jersey
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is generating profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duty according to the publicly declared incorporation, or published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies; the resulting entities are often known as corporate groups. Meanings and definitions A company can be defined as an "artificial per ...
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Airships Of The United States
An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power. Aerostats gain their lift from a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding air. In early dirigibles, the lifting gas used was hydrogen, due to its high lifting capacity and ready availability. Helium gas has almost the same lifting capacity and is not flammable, unlike hydrogen, but is rare and relatively expensive. Significant amounts were first discovered in the United States and for a while helium was only available for airships in that country. Most airships built since the 1960s have used helium, though some have used hot air.A few airships after World War II used hydrogen. The first British airship to use helium was the ''Chitty Bang Bang'' of 1967. The envelope of an airship may form the gasbag, or it may contain a number of gas-filled cells. An airship also has engines, crew, and optionally also payload accommodation, ...
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Manufacturing Companies Established In 1959
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high-tech, but it is most commonly applied to industrial design, in which raw materials from the primary sector are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such goods may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of other more complex products (such as aircraft, household appliances, furniture, sports equipment or automobiles), or distributed via the tertiary industry to end users and consumers (usually through wholesalers, who in turn sell to retailers, who then sell them to individual customers). Manufacturing engineering is the field of engineering that designs and optimizes the manufacturing process, or the steps through which raw materials are transformed into a final product. T ...
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