List of Forlanini airships

This is a complete list of Forlanini airships designed and built by the Italian pioneer Enrico Forlanini from 1900 to 1931 (posthumously).[1] These, like the German Groß-Basenach semi-rigid airships, were the first to have the gondola attached to the envelope, to reduce air resistance.[2]

F.1 Leonardo da Vinci

Construction started in 1900 collaboration with Cesare del Fabbro. Its first flight in 1909 was one year after the first Italian semi-rigid flight by Gaetano Arturo Crocco. Like all the Floranini airships, except the Omnia Dir, the empennage comprised groups of multiple planes at the poop and at the tail.[2]

F.2 Città di Milano

F.2's gondola was divided in three compartments: the command cabin, passenger cabin, and machine room. For safety all the material was treated with a fire suppressant and the envelope was double-skinned.[2]

F.3

F.4

F.5

F.6

F.6 Forlanini Airship

Omnia Dir

See also

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lapini, Gian Luca
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 editors of Italian wikipedia
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 New York Times
  4. New York Times has 1912.#Tim
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Ligugnana, Sandro
  6. New York Times wrote F-4 appeared in 1916.#Tim
  7. New York Times claimed 700,000 cubic feet (20,000 m3).#Tim
  8. New York Times wrote payload reduces to 13,000 pounds (5,900 kg) at 7,000 feet (2,100 m) and 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) at 13,000 feet (4,000 m).#Tim

References

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