Aerostat (disambiguation)
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An aerostat is an aircraft that remains aloft through the use of lighter-than-air gases. A narrower and more technical meaning refers only to tethered balloons.
Aerostat may also refer to:
Types of aerostat
Airships
Airships are powered aerostats.
- Airship, or dirigible, any aerostat that can be manoeuvred through the air using propellers, rudders, etc.
- Blimp, an airship with no structural framework, using only gas pressure to maintain its shape
- Rigid airship, uses only a structural framework to maintain its shape
- Semi-rigid airship, uses a partial structural framework in combination with gas pressure to maintain its shape
Balloons
Balloons are unpowered aerostats.
Tethered
The term aerostat is sometimes used to refer specifically to tethered balloons, to the exclusion of other types. Sub-types include:
Untethered
Hybrids
Hybrids combine aerostatic buoyancy and aerodynamic lift.
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See also
- All pages beginning with aerostat
- All pages with a title containing aerostat
- Aerostatics
- Balloon
- Sky lantern
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