"No other company has spent as much energy and money on lighter-than-air technology in the last few years.

It is also one of the most expensive lighter-than-air craft ever built.

But in one hour the storm will ground all small lighter-than-air craft.

Other methods, such as lighter-than-air flight, are used only by man.

R101 was the end of British attempts to create lighter-than-air aircraft.

It is the first known demonstration of a practical lighter-than-air craft.

"I will need the power in my razor to help make the lighter-than-air gas.

No matter what its form, try anything enveloped in this lighter-than-air coating.

As though the truck had become a lighter-than-air vehicle.

"Who would ever have thought I'd have a lighter-than-air son?"

"The Land is too far ahead of us on the learning curve with lighter-than-air craft.

Given the option 1 the jet will become a balloon filled with a lighter-than-air gas.

Bud tells me you're trying a bit of lighter-than-air navigation, so go ahead with your experiment.

Helium was primarily used as a lifting gas in lighter-than-air craft.

He was first to be sent to lighter-than-air flying school (dirigibles).

Lighter-than-air conveyances had also already played major roles in science fiction.

And ride the desert thermals in lighter-than-air craft of his own design.

However, the term aerostat can also be used to refer to all lighter-than-air aircraft.

Much of the history of lighter-than-air flight has evolved in Akron.

You have cooked up something special, let's say your famous, lighter-than-air Solstice cookies.

What better flotation medium for a lighter-than-air vessel than nothingness?

Before becoming ill, he was an active lighter-than-air pilot.

There is often a lighter-than-air quality to performance cars such as this, but the E500 never feels anything less than weighty and serious.

People laugh at lighter-than-air vehicles and the guys who make them: the "helium heads".

Currently, the lighter-than-air market uses only two per cent of all the helium bought in the world.

The sub was being fitted to a Lighter-Than-Air in place of the usual armored gondola.

Poem Rising to the Ceiling of the University Recreation Building (Lighter-Than-Air Verse).

The transport capsule's overhead panel came to life and a recorded male voice droned: "Lighter-Than-Air, Base Bravo loading facility."

Naval Air Station Houma was opened on May 1, 1943 as a station for Lighter-than-Air (LTA) airships.

Promoted to the rank of major in October 1930, he took command of the Materiel Division's Lighter-than-Air Branch at Wright Field, Ohio.

Rosendahl retired to Toms River, New Jersey in 1960 to write and to organize the Lighter-Than-Air Museum Association at Lakehurst.

The ZRCV was a large dirigible aircraft carrier proposed by the Lighter-than-Air Bureau of the Navy Department and the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation.

One of the nosecones from AEREON III is reportedly in the Lighter-than-Air Society's collection in Akron, Ohio.

The Air Station was established in 1942 as Naval Lighter-Than-Air Station Santa Ana, a base for airship operations in support of the United States Navy's coastal patrol efforts during World War II.

Kittinger also received an oak leaf cluster to the Distinguished Flying Cross, the J.J. Jeffries Award, the A. Leo Stevens Parachute Medal, and the Wingfoot Lighter-Than-Air Society Achievement Award.

He next underwent further instruction at NAS Lakehurst, before assuming the duties of Assistant for Lighter-than-Air Planning and Programs Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Washington, D.C., in December 1948.

Naval Airship Association, "The Noon Balloon" Summer 2006, "After 44 Years, Lakehurst Back in Lighter-Than-Air Flight Research," posted by the Asbury Park Press, 5 September 2006, by Kirt More, Toms River Bureau, pgs 8-10.

R101 was the end of British attempts to create lighter-than-air aircraft.

However, the term aerostat can also be used to refer to all lighter-than-air aircraft.

Before the Great War, Laws was an amateur photographer who on his own initiative experimented with photography from lighter-than-air aircraft.

Straight after the Velvet revolution, with plenty of experience of manufacturing balloons, he started his own privat company to manufacture lighter-than-air aircraft.

Lighter-than-air aircraft

The use of lighter-than-air aircraft in warfare became more prevalent in the 19th century, including regular use in the American Civil War.

G-FAAA to G-FZZZ Lighter-than-air aircraft.

The first lighter-than-air aircraft of any type to circumnavigate the Earth under its own power was the rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, which did so in 1929.

After one year, Foulois had concluded through his experience, understanding of military dirigibles in Europe, and talks with Tom Baldwin, that there was no military future for lighter-than-air aircraft.

Some of these gases are used as lifting gases in lighter-than-air aircraft, which include free balloons, moored balloons, and airships, to make the whole craft, on average, lighter than air.

An airship or dirigible is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust mechanisms.

After installation of her armament, the lighter-than-air aircraft tender departed Philadelphia on 2 March, touching at Hampton Roads, Virginia and Charleston, South Carolina en route to the Florida coast.

Those airmen who hold Commercial Privileges in Lighter-Than-Air aircraft (Balloons and Airships) have flight instructor privileges in those category and classes they have on their pilot certificate.

Hitchcock Naval Air Station was a Naval Air Station built by the United States Navy during World War II to accommodate lighter-than-air aircraft, more commonly known as blimps.

A wide variety of activities are regulated, such as airplane design, typical airline flights, pilot training activities, hot-air ballooning, lighter-than-air aircraft, man-made structure heights, obstruction lighting and marking, and even model rocket launches and model aircraft operation.

A little over two months later, the Navy signed a contract with the Tietjen and Lang Dry Dock Company of Hoboken, New Jersey to convert the ship to a unique type of auxiliary vessel, a "lighter-than-air aircraft tender."

Pushing the envelope comes from 19th-century mathematics, in which curves were said to be "enveloped" by each other; in 1944 envelope condition was applied to lighter-than-air aircraft, and in 1979 the writer Tom Wolfe popularized the phrase being used by astronauts in "The Right Stuff."

Eighty years ago, two mighty vessels, the R100 and the R101, were housed in these great metal behemoths; incredible 'lighter-than-air aircraft' - with customised silver and crockery, Axminster carpeted smoking rooms and portholed cabins - that were designed to sail noiselessly across the Atlantic like aeronautical cruise ships.