Airship Development AD1
{{Short description|British advertising airship}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}
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The Airship Development AD1 was a British non-rigid gas-filled advertising airship. The airship had a {{convert|60,000|cuft|m3}} envelope made by the Reginald Foster Dagnall Company of Guildford. The airship, registered G-FAAX, was erected at the old Cramlington Airship Station near Newcastle where it was test flown on 6 November 1929. It was powered by a {{convert|100|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} ABC Hornet four-cylinder piston engine mounted on a three-seater underslung car.
The AD1 was used for advertising and had a {{convert|76|by|24|ft|m|abbr=on}} panel on each side for messages. It was dismantled after an accident in June 1931 when a storm tore it from its moorings and damaged the envelope.
References
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|date=October 1966
|title=The Balloon and Airship Register
|journal=Air-Britain Digest
|publisher=Air-Britain
|volume= 18
|issue=10
|author= John A Bagley
|pages= 260–261
}}
{{cite book |editor=Michael Austen |title= The British Civil Aircraft Register 1919-1999 |year=1999 |publisher= Air-Britain|location= Tonbridge, Kent, England |isbn=0 85130 281 5}}
}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book |editor=Michael Austen |title= The British Civil Aircraft Register 1919-1999 |year=1999 |publisher= Air-Britain|location= Tonbridge, Kent, England |isbn=0 85130 281 5}}
- {{citation |journal=Flight |title=Enterprise in Modern Advertising |date=1 August 1930 |page=847 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1930/untitled0%20-%200922.html}}
- {{citation |journal=Flight |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1929/1929-1%20-%201541.html |title=The AD.l. Non-Rigid Airship |date=8 November 1929 |page=1182}}
Category:1920s British civil utility aircraft
Category:Airships of the United Kingdom
Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft
Category:Aircraft first flown in 1929
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