Airship Design Burgess.pdf | Ultimate |

3/5 He calculated “pressure altitude” vs. gas purity. Today’s stratospheric airships use the same math for day/night buoyancy control.

4/5 Weakness? Burgess underestimated longitudinal bending from gusts – something the USS Shenandoah paid for. But his failure analysis was honest. Airship Design Burgess.pdf

#Airships #AerospaceEngineering #LighterThanAir #Burgess #NACA #AviationHistory Post: 🪯 Found “Airship Design Burgess.pdf” – a 1925 NACA report by Charles P. Burgess. Thread on why it still matters ↓ 3/5 He calculated “pressure altitude” vs