Aerostat (disambiguation)
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.
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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.
- Balloon (aircraft)
- Gas balloon
- Hot air balloon
- Vacuum balloon
Tethered
The term aerostat is sometimes used to refer specifically to tethered balloons, to the exclusion of other types. Sub-types include:
Untethered
- Espionage balloon
- Fire balloon
Hybrids
Hybrids combine aerostatic buoyancy and aerodynamic lift.
Powered
Unpowered
Other uses
- Tethered Aerostat Radar System
- Akashdeep Aerostat
- RT Aerostats Systems
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with aerostat
- All pages with titles containing aerostat
- Aerostatics
- Balloon
- Sky lantern
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