AIRSHIP ASSOCIATION

PUBLICATIONS

Our latest publication
An Introduction to the AIRSHIP - 3^rd Edition

by Dr Edwin Mowforth MA(Cantab) PhD(Surrey) MRAeS MIMechE Eng

Vice President of the Airship Association

Published October 2007

'An Introduction to the AIRSHIP' 3^rd edition is the latest revision by Edwin Mowforth of his hugely successful book. The 1^st edition was published in 1985, the 2^nd edition was greatly revised and enlarged and published in 1991.

This latest edition has been completely revised with several additional chapters bringing the modern airship story right up-to-date.

An Introduction to the AIRSHIP' 3^rd edition comprises 150 pages of valuable information illustrated with numerous drawings and graphs.

For sale by post from The Airship Association (£9.75 + P&P) or from our AIRSHIP SHOP marketing web-site (click Publications on that page).

Published October 2004

'Airships Today' (10 pp A4 in full colour) is an introduction to the types and various capabilities of modern airships. It describes in some detail what modern airships are, how they compare with other types of aircraft and what they can do in a number of markets.

There is also a description of how both the modern helium gassed blimp and hot-air airships operate, illustrated with a selection of recent colour photographs of modern airships operating.

A valuable and up-to-date reference aid when briefing people with little previous experience of powered lighter-than-air aviation.

For sale by post from The Airship Association (£2.00 + P&P) or from our AIRSHIP SHOP marketing web-site (click Publications on that page).

AIRSHIP - The Journal of The Airship Association

AIRSHIP is a quarterly illustrated magazine sent free to all members (by airmail to overseas members). Originally known as The Phoenix Newsletter, it has been published continuously since 1971 and has become a leading publication of the airship community. It contains conference and technical papers, world-wide news, letters, book reviews, general articles and a photo feature. From edition No 136 (June 2002) it has been produced in A4 format with 32 pages, several of them in colour.

Many previous editions of AIRSHIP are still available. Check the list at our AIRSHIP SHOP under Journal Backnumbers.

BOOKS
Members of the Airship Association Council have published a number of books about airships. The following are currently available:

• Airship Technology edited by Prof Gabriel Khoury and the late Prof David Gillett. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

        NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FORMAT

Proceedings of the International Airship Conventions & Exhibitions

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4th Convention - Cambridge, England : 28^th - 31^st July 2002

These Proceedings comprise a printed and bound book in A4 format and full colour of some 57 pages. It contains the texts of the abstracts of all 46 papers from ten countries presented at the convention conference. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing the entire papers of all presentations, including all graphs, photos and drawings. The papers are all presented in the Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.

In addition there are two computer promotional video files of modern airship flying sequences provided by our corporate members CargoLifter AG and the SkyCruiser Corporation.

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5th Convention - Oxford, England : 19^th - 23^rd August 2004

This publication consists of a 32 page book in A4 format and a CD-ROM.

The book contains printed versions of the abstracts of all the papers registered for delivery. The accompanying CD-ROM contains all the registered papers in full. They are produced in full colour in adobe-acrobat.pdf format and can be viewed by a variety of computer operating systems including Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

In addition, there are a number of video items supplied by airship operators to illustrate the work carried out by their products. These too are viewable on most small computer systems.

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Both the above items, plus a number of other publications, are available to order by credit card on the Airship Shop.

AIRSHIP INFORMATION SHEETS

Airship Information Sheet titles available:

• Manned Airships as at 1^st September 2003 by Arnold W L Nayler MRAeS, MAIAA. (3 pp A4)
   

• Airships Today - 2004 by Arnold W. L. Nayler MRAeS, MAIAA (9 pp A4 – Adobe.pdf format)
   

All the above, except Airship Technology, are available over the Internet using a secure credit card facility. Click for the Airship Shop

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