Airship Type Certificate and more for Sale

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The US LTA Corporation Model 138S Airship is a small single engine airship that has been developed in the late 1980s. It was issued an official FAA Type certificate in 1990. The airship is a completely new design that uses a inverted Y configuration similar to that on the Zeppelin NT. It can be controlled with only a stick in contrast to the big wheels that are used on the Goodyear blimps. And the gondola can fit 6 people. It's a nice little airship and it is really sad that no 138S is flying today anymore. But you can change this. The Type Certificate with all Engineering Documents and a lot of Parts are on sale.
Here the complete list of what is offered:

INVITATION TO OFFER

US-LTA CORPORATION IS OFFERING THE MODEL 138S AIRSHIP FAA TYPE CERTIFICATE AS2NM, ALL ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION, SPARE PARTS AND PARTS STORES, MOLDING AND TOOLING FOR SALE TO INTERESTED OFFERERS. THE ACQUISITION OF THE TYPE CERTIFICATE COMBINED WITH ALL THE RELEVANT ENGINEERING DOCUMENTATION AND PRODUCTION DRAWINGS WILL TRANSFER ALL RIGHTS TO BUILD AND DESIGN TO THE OFFERER.

THE ITEMS FOR SALE INCLUDE:

• TYPE CERTIFICATE
• DRAWING PACKAGE - REV W
• ENGINEERING DOCUMENTATION
• ALL PARTS STORES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
  
  • CONTROL CAR - 001 CONTROL CAR INCLUDING FIBERGLASS SHELL, COWLS, HYDRAULIC LINKAGES, CONSOLES, FLOOR, FUEL TANKS, ETC., 002 CONTROL CAR UNDERCARRIAGE, TEST MULE CONTROL CAR STRUCTURE
  • CONTROL SURFACES INCLUDING FINS AND RUDDERS SUITABLE FOR PRODUCTION TEMPLATE
  • NOSE ASSEMBLY, SUITABLE FOR PRODUCTION TEMPLATE (X2)
  • STICK MAST AND MAST TRAILER
  • TOOLING, PLUGS AND MOLDS FOR COWLS, VALVES, AIR DUCT, WELDMENTS, ETC.
  • LANDING GEAR (X3)
  • AIR AND HELIUM VALVES (X6)
  • PROPELLERS (X2)
  • MISC SPARE PARTS INCLUDING HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS, AUX. FANS, ETC.
• ARCHIVE OF VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHIC FOOTAGE

All this can be yours for less than 500,000$ (USD). This is an absolute bargain if one considers that to buy a Zeppelin NT airship you have to pay more than 20,000,000$ (USD). Of course you wont get a complete airship but the foundation to start a business. If you are interested please contact me at airshipworld at gmail dot com. I can provide you with more information if you are interested.

The technology is of course not the most up to date but the standard of the 138S is more advanced than the Lightships and Goodyear Blimps that one sees flying all over the world. The Zeppelin NT is more advanced since it was designed a built a few years later.

This below is the Type Certificate of the 138S airship, and you can also look at the Detailed Specifications here
As2nm US-LTA138S Type Certificate

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Here some videos of the Airship so that you can get an impression of it's capabilities. I personally think it's a very capable small ship.


Again if you are interested or know someone who might be interested please let me know, by sending an email to airshipworld at gmail dot com.

Disclaimer: We only report about the sale and are not giving an evaluation of the item on sale. The opinions expressed are personal and do not reflect an scientific evaluation of the item on sale.

Disney Pixar UP - New Envelope Branding on Airshipventures Zeppelin

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The Airshipventures Blog has been called Up Ship! ever since. But now they also have a real UP-ship with the new envelope branding that was revealed today. It is featuring the word UP (the title of Disney Pixar's new animated movie) on each side of the envelope with the floating house of the main character of the movie and the company names Disney and PIXAR at the stern of the ship and the words "Only in Theaters" underneath the giant UP. Just the word UP is 78ft across and in total there are over 700 decal sheets with approximately 5000 sqft of decal material. It took four people four days to apply the branding which is provided by the team from Airborne Grafix in Germany who have been designing and producing the brandings of many campaigns of the Zeppelin NT worldwide. The decals will be off by the end of June so hurry to snap a picture of the new branding and send it to Airship Ventures. I find the branding absolutely stunning and a great example of how airship advertising can be, it's really one of a kind. It's the first advertising contract of the Zeppelin NT in the US but I am sure after seeing how impressive the airship is there will be many to follow. Remember the airship will be flying down to L.A. so you will have a chance to catch it there too.
But Airshipventures is not the only Lighter-Than-Air business that is contracted to promote the movie. Jonathan Trappe from ClusterBalloon.com is doing a North America tour with two armchairs that are lifted up with balloons, just like the house in the movie. One chair tours the west coast the other the east coast. Go to the Clusterballoon.com Website for a schedule and to volunteer to help out when they are in your area. Today and tomorrow May 8th the west coast tour is in San Francisco, would be fun to see a picture of both the cluster balloon and the airship. Thanks to Dan Nachbar for the tip on the cluster balloon event.

RC Airship Regatta 2009 - Last race and final results

And here it is the final Race of the 2009 RC Airship Regatta. The airship Iris build and flown by Johannes Eißing the organizer and initiator of the RC Airship Regatta.
Iris - Race 7 - Regatta March 2009

With 81,33 s Iris placed 4th after the blazing fast D11 the loud Adele and the proven Centriolo. After the official race Adele was flown two more times and the flights were also included in the ranking, it clearly shows that the pilots skills also play an important role in the race. Here now the complete ranking after all races.

Airship	Pilot	Lap 1	Lap 2	Lap3	Sum	Rank
D11	Carsten Seltz	16,79	12,98	13,90	43,66	1
Adele	Tim Schaller	22,29	26,34	24,69	73,32	2
Centriolo	Dominik Baumüller	25,63	22,14	25,58	73,36	3
Iris	Johannes Eißing	29,36	25,14	26,83	81,33	4
Adele	Carsten Seltz	27,29	33,20	31,37	91,86	5
Flugwerft Flitzer	Peter Hanickel	37,24	33,46	32,73	103,43	6
Adele	Martin Wähmer	29,80	76,70	45,50	152,00	7
Makrobe	Dominik Baumüller	71,34	38,41	65,68	175,42	8
Roter Graf	Frederik Gester	148,54	103,44	92,85	344,83	9

Here the video of Martin Wähmers race with Adele
Adele - Race 8 - Regatta March 2009

Also we wanted to show you the different sizes of the airships. All dimensions are in meters (1 meter = 3.2808399 feet)

Airship	Length	Width	Height	Block Volume	Scale	Penalty
D11	1,73	0,31	0,32	0,172	0,556	0,745
Adele	1,94	0,60	0,55	0,640	0,862	0,928
Centriolo	2,50	0,62	0,83	1,287	1,088	1,043
Iris	2,00	0,40	0,40	0,320	0,684	0,827
Flugwerft Flitzer	2,62	0,61	0,53	0,847	0,946	0,973
Makrobe	1,50	0,40	0,32	0,192	0,577	0,760
Rote Graf	3,87	1,04	1,10	4,427	1,642	1,281

And here are all the races in one Playlist

To learn more about future races and to get involved yourself, please head over to the RC Airship Regatta Yahoo Group and become a part of the community. Maybe you want to host your own race somewhere in North Amercia or Asia, where ever in the world you are join the RC Airship Regatta Yahoo Group.

RC Airship Regatta 2009 - Race Number 6

Race 6 is featuring another already familiar airship that is flown again by Dominik Baumüller who already flew Makrobe. This time he flies Centriolo an airship also already seen during last years competition. If you want to see last years flight look here.

Centriolo - Race 6 - Regatta March 2009


Since the airships have all different sizes the actual times of the airships are multiplied with a penalty-factor, this factor is larger the larger the ship is. The reasoning behind this is with a larger ship you have more payload and can attach larger and faster motors, this is not always the case that larger ships are faster but this formula tries to make the race a bit more fair.
With an actual time of 70,34 s and a calculated time of 73,36 s places Centriolo third after Adele even though Centriolo was in fact faster but also larger which shows the effect of the factor.

Ranking after race 6:

1. D11 - 43,66 s
2. Adele - 73,32 s
3. Centriolo - 73,36 s
4. Flugwerft Flitzer - 103,43 s
5. Makrobe - 152,00 s
6. Roter Graf - 344,83 s

Tomorrow we will be presenting the last of the 7 airships making it's race and we will be presenting the complete results table. There were 2 additional races with Adele that will be included in the final results.

RC Airship Regatta 2009 - Race Number 5

Trying to catch up a little I am posting race 5 and 6 on the same day. This is race 5 the airship is called D11 flown by Carsten Seltz.

D11 - Race 5 - Regatta March 2009


With a time of 43,66 s D11 delivered an impressive performance and was calculated 30 seconds faster than the larger Adele with 73,32 s.

Ranking after race 5:

1. D11 - 43,66 s
2. Adele - 73,32 s
3. Flugwerft Flitzer - 103,43 s
4. Makrobe - 152,00 s
5. Roter Graf - 344,83 s

Check back later today for race number 6.

Zeppelin Airship make trip from San Francisco to LA in May

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Airship Ventures continues to expand their operations and has some great tours planned for this season. One of the probably most remarkable and unique was just announced 2 days ago. The Zeppelin NT will make a tour from San Francisco along the Californian coast down to Los Angeles, around memorial day weekend. It's the first time that Airship Ventures offers such a long tour which will take 8-10 hours according to their website. Check out the Airship Ventures website for more information on their current Tours, Upcoming Events and the Flight Calendar. Below we republish the complete press release which is also available via Marketwire. For contact information please have a look at their Contacts page.

Airship Ventures Announces Historic Voyages Between San Francisco and Los Angeles

California Cruises Are the First-Ever Flights to Carry Passengers Between the Cities by Zeppelin

MOFFETT FIELD, CA--(Marketwire - April 29, 2009) - Continuing to celebrate its second season of operations, Airship Ventures announced today that in May, Eureka, the largest airship in the world, will make the first-ever passenger flights between San Francisco and Los Angeles by a Zeppelin. Bookending the Memorial Day holiday and a special week of Los Angeles tours, Eureka's first California Airship Cruises will allow passengers to enjoy spectacular views of California's Coastline and Central Valley as they sail in comfort 1,000 feet above the sights. Weather permitting, departure is scheduled for May 20 with a return on May 26.

"This is the first time since the Graf Zeppelin passed through California in 1929 on its round-the-world trip that sightseers have ever had the opportunity to view Central California and Los Angeles from a passenger Zeppelin," noted Airship Ventures Director of Sales Joanne Fedeyko. "Our inaugural California Airship Cruises and Los Angeles Airship Tours are quite literally historic occasions and they exemplify the type of unique experiences our passengers enjoy everywhere we fly."

In addition to a week of California Airship Cruises and Los Angeles Airship Tours, Airship Ventures will continue to offer scenic flights above the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas and continue its most popular promotions; highlights include:

• Flight-seeing-for-Two: Share an airship adventure and soar above the sights with someone special with the limited-time Flight-seeing-for-Two promotion. Buy one tour ticket or gift certificate and save 50% on a second. Some restrictions apply.
• Mother's Day Flights: Give mom a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get away from it all with an Airship Ventures gift certificate or Mother's Day tour. Admire the views with mom on board Eureka, or wave to her from the ground as she relaxes at 1,000 feet above San Francisco or Monterey.
  

To book a flight-seeing experience, or to view Airship Ventures' complete fight schedule, visit the Airship Ventures Web site at www.airshipventures.com, or call 650.969.8100.

About Airship Ventures, Inc.

Founded in 2007 in California, Airship Ventures, Inc. operates the only passenger airship operation in the United States, featuring Eureka, the world's largest airship. At 246 feet in length, the Zeppelin is longer than a Boeing 747 and more than 50 feet longer than the largest blimp. Based out of Moffett Field, Eureka also flies from Oakland and Monterey.

The Zeppelin's spacious cabin comfortably accommodates one pilot, one flight attendant, and 12 passengers with luxury features including oversized panoramic windows, an onboard restroom with window, and a 180-degree rear observation window and "love seat" that wraps the entire aft of the cabin. Using the inert gas helium for lift, and vectored thrust engines for flight, Zeppelin NTs have been flying in Germany and Japan since 1997 with an unparalleled safety record.