21st Century Airships

21st Century Airships Inc.
IndustryAviation
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988)
FounderHokan Colting
Headquarters
Canada

21st Century Airships Inc.[1] was a Canadian airship technologies research and development company.[2] These projects included the development of a spherical shaped airship as well as airships for high altitude, environmental research, surveillance and military applications, heavy lifting and sightseeing.[3][4]

History

Hokan Colting, a Canadian airship design entrepreneur, founded the seemingly now-defunct 21st Century Airships in 1988.[1] Colting aimed at designing an airship that could be cheaper to operate, and easier to control. The 21st Century Airships holds the world record for altitude reached in an airship at 6,400 metres.[5] It is also one of the companies who attempted to develop airships for use in communications.[6] His concept involved the construction of ships that can route cellular phone and wireless data above atmospheric interference and without the need for towers and satellites.[7]

21st Century Airships Inc. was able to build ships for the U.S. Air Force and private companies such as Dex Flying Pictures.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places". Air & Space Magazine. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  2. ^ "21st Century Airships – Airship Resources". Myairship.com. 1997-08-08. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  3. ^ "Hokan Colting – ideacity". Ideacityonline.com. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  4. ^ "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register - Historical Search (Result)". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  5. ^ "Digital Journal: A Global Digital Media Network". M.digitaljournal.com. 2004-02-17. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  6. ^ Faden, Mike (2005). Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. p. 30.
  7. ^ Luman, Stuart. "Air Ball". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  8. ^ Langton, Jerry (2004-10-07). "Blimps have future in signal transmission". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-07-20.


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