23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-4.6.4

IN-FLIGHT GUST AND LOAD MEASUREMENTS ON AN AIRSHIP FOR MODEL-BUILDING AND COMPARISON WITH THE TRANSPORT AIRSHIP REQUIREMENTS

R. Koenig, G. Wulff
DLR, Germany

Keywords: airship, gust-loads, model building

Loads by gusts can be important for the design of semi-rigid airships. The Transport Airship Requirements contains an empirical equation, which determines the maximum bending moment caused by a 1-cos gust. To check the validity of this equation, in-flight gust and load measurement were performed using the airship Zeppelin NT.

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