21st Century Airships

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]

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See also
  • High-altitude airship
  • High-altitude platform
  • Stratospheric airship

References
  1. "History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Air & Space Magazine". Airspacemag.com. 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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Digital Journal: A Global Digital Media Network". M.digitaljournal.com. 2004-02-17. Retrieved 2014-08-19.


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