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British civil airworthiness requirements for airships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

E. J. Niedermayer
E. J. Niedermayer*
Affiliation:
Airworthiness Division, Civil Aviation Authority
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Prior to 1937, responsibility for civil aviation in the UK, including airworthiness and operation of airships, was vested in the Air Ministry, a Government department, and it was only in 1937 that it was devolved to an independent authority, the Air Registration Board, which is now the Airworthiness Division of the CAA.

The first involvement of the CAA with airships occurred early in the present decade when it was confronted firstly with an extremely unorthodox configuration of airship. The Skyship project (Fig. 1) was 720 ft in diameter, 48 million cu ft in volume, and 400 tons pay-load capacity.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 83 , Issue 828 , December 1979 , pp. 476 - 482
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1973 

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