A practical orbital airship design must deal with multiple engineering challenges of both high altitude balloons and spacecraft.

The square-cube law - common in many engineering calculations - is expected to be critical to the orbital airship design.

The R100 would largely use existing technology, while the R101 was intended to act as an experimental test-bed for innovatory and techniques in airship design.

He left J. Samuel White's in 1913 when an opportunity arose for him to work on airship design and then aircraft design.

Tom continues to improve on his airship designs, which are combined biplane and dirigibles.

In 1911 Goodyear started experimenting with airship design.

Success or failure in airship design is mostly a matter of details, and an infinite capacity for taking pains is our great strength.

His airship design - while never having been built - had a central mast, to which a sail was attached.

These data were also made available to Vickers; both airships had the same elongated tear-drop shape, unlike previous airship designs.

At its own cost, with no guarantee of return, it had worked to advance the state of airship design.