Drawings of airships with mooring masts

BNW/B/4/11

Scale drawings of airships with mooring masts produced by Vickers as used in the Vickers aircraft catalogue 1919/1920. The drawings show: Rigid Type I – Keel Girder System Rigid Type II – Hull Girder System Rigid Type III – Central Girder System Rigid Type IV – Axial Boom Type Semi-rigid Type I – Keel Suspension Girder System (Siemens Schuckert System) Semi-rigid Type I – Keel Suspension Girder System (Lebaudy System) Semi-rigid Type II – Internal Girder System – Forlanini Semi-rigid Type III – Jointed Suspension Girder System – Italian “M” & “P” Ships Non-rigid Type I – Suspension Patch System Non-rigid Type II – Parseval Trajectory Band System Non-rigid Type III – Astra Torres Internal Rigging System Non-rigid Type IV – Suspended Girder System 3,500,000 CBC FT Passenger & Mail Carrying Airship Passenger Accommodation Proposed Aerodrome with Mooring Tower Details of Masthead Normal Bending Moment & Shearing Force Diagram, with Envelope of Deflated Conditions Commercial Ship Accommodating 30 Passengers Diagram Shewing Gas Pressures

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