Other LTA Web Sites

Other Organizations (see Resources page for more information)

• Lighter Than Air Institute (New Zealand) publisher of the quarterly Airshipworld (incorporating Aerostation)
• AIAA LTA Technical Committee conference bulletin board; primarily for TC members, but also open to other LTA professionals
• AIAA LTA Technical Committee; meeting announcements, other administrative matters
• Airship Heritage Trust [UK]
• The Airship Association[UK]
• The Lighter-Than-Air Society [USA]
• Naval Airship Association
• Navy Lakehurst Historical Society
• "OZON" Scientific-Technical Center (Russia)

Lighter-than-Air Links...

• LTA Research Resources, compiled by A.B.A.C.
• Félix Buttin's French dirigibles page

Airship Builders

• Advanced HYBRID Aircraft (LTA/HTA hybrids designed by Bruce Blake, of "Ardath" MA-1 fame)
• American Blimp Corp.(small to medium nonrigids for both civil and military applications)
• USLTA (maker of the 138S nonrigid)
• WorldWide Aeros (small manned nonrigids)
• Zeppelin NT
• West-Deutsche Luftwerbung (WDL) (Blimps)

Airship Models

• Airspeed Airships (flying scale model airships)
• Ballonsport Boelling (model hot-air balloons and blimps)
• Currell Graphics (free card model of HM Airship R-100)
• Draganfly Innovations Inc. (radio controlled model blimps)
• Marcle Models (card models for display, from the UK)
• Megatech (balsa display models, including models of some rigid airships)
• Model Airships (two German experimenters and their RC airships Claire and Helene)
• NYBLIMP.com (light indoor RC model blimps)
• Peck Polymers (flying model airships for both fun and advertising)
• REVO Zeppeline und Micro Aviation Technologies (R/C and tethered airships, aerial photo systems)
• West Coast Blimps and Electronics
• Paper models of Schwarz and LZ1 airships
• RosAeroSystems (Russia) UFO-shaped tethered aerostats
• R-100 card model by Ralph Currell - free!

Airship Operators

• The Lightship Group
• Skyship Tours Ltd. (ZeppelinNT operator)

Airship Facilities

• Flushing Blimp Port Project

Books

Films, Video Recordings, Photographs

• British Pathé Plc (many films with keyword "airship")
• Airship Image Library
• Airships.net Zeppelin photos
• Bell and Blade Home Video reportedly has a large selection of LTA-related videos

History (more information in Resources page; history books in Books)

• Airships at Guantanamo Bay
• Goodyear (includes the "ghost blimp" L-8, the christening of the Akron, and much besides)
• The Lighter-Than-Air Society [USA]
• Naval Airship Association
• Navy Lakehurst Historical Society
• Titanic der Lüfte - Die letzte Fahrt der Hindenburg. Last flight of the Hindenburg, including computer animation of the ship. Text in German.

Hydrogen

• California Hydrogen Business Council

Projects

• Aircruiser (deltoid airship project)
• Bosch Aerospace
• Lenticular Rigids
• Mineseeker (British MoD/Lightship Group project using airships to carry sensitive landmine detection gear)
• Mobile Airships & Blimps
• Interface Airships
• Russian Aeronautical Systems, Ltd. (nonrigid and semirigid projects)
• Hamilton Airship Company