Varialift Patent Granted and Proof of Concept Demonstration

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Mr Alan Handley from Varialift Airships just published a press release stating that the Patent for his Varialift concept has been granted, we would like to congratulate him on this achievement. We are also looking forward to the demonstration of the proof of concept that is planned from April 2009 onwards. You can contact Mr Handley via alan at varialift dot com to register to get a formal notice of this event 30 days before it happens.
For Reference below the full text of the Press Release and after that the European granted patent as well as the US Patent application. Also check out the Links at the Bottom of this post for our previous posts about Varialift

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Mr A Handley is pleased to announce that protection of the Intellectual Property in the Varialift concept has been assured by the grant of the European Patent No 1591356.

Proof of concept.

The development and build of the proof of concept continues and it is hoped that a demonstration will be given in the coming year 2009 from April onwards.

All parties who may be interested in seeing the demonstration may register by email to alan at varialift dot com, Formal notices will be sent out giving the date and time and venue 30 days prior to any demonstration.

The European patent EP1591356 (B1)
EP1591356 (B1) - System for controlling the lift of an aircraft

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United States Patent Application US20050236519 (A1) (alternative link at the US Patent Office)
US20050236519 (A1) - System for controlling the lift of an aircraft

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The Varialift Airship - a progress update

The Varialift Airship is a new concept for an Airship with a variable lift system, developed and invented by Alan Handley. The variable lift, will make ground handling of this airship a lot easier. We first reported about Varialift back in April 2007 with the Varialift Website announcement and a look at his Varialift patent application today we get the chance to give you a little update as to what has been going on. Mr Handley was so kind and shared this press release with us.

Varialift Airships

The development of the varialift principle has taken a new step forward in recent weeks with the start of construction of two varialift units for proof of concept and test purposes.

The units would form part of a number of units running the length of the airship that will have variable lift capability plus load trimming for the aircraft.

The announcement was made at the Fourth International Symposium “Making it Happen” in Winnipeg Canada on October 31st 2007 during a presentation by Alan Handley CEO of Varialift Airships

The presentation illustrated how the units work and how by using them heavy lift up to 1000 tonnes is possible for cargo carrying over long and short haul flights.

This is the last part of a five year development program of the concept this has included not only the formulation of the aircraft and mathematical modelling but also the IP protection by international Patent Applications

The airship will be constructed entirely of aluminum and the picture below shows the very first section being manufactured.

Further information on the website www.varialift.com

Mr Handley also shared two pictures with us showing "the first top section being tested for self support (A total of 10 will be required)." Enjoy and click on the images to get a bigger version.

Varialift in Discussion

News about the Varialift Concept reach us from the Airshipworld Yahoogroup. This week a discussion about the validity of Mr Alan Handleys claims on his Varilift Website started. His filed patent for the Varialift Technology was also mentioned, and the interested reader can get the PDF from pat2pdf. In this dicussion it was doubted that he was actually able to build it and was rather going to run with the investment money. What do you think ? Does the patent sound valid, is Mr Handley trustworthy? Should we doubt innovators and mistrust them, or should we rather try to build trust and thus avoid doubt? We are one industry and everyone of us tries his her best to bring airships back to the mainstream and we can only reach this goal if we work together worldwide.

Varialift Airships

Tonight we are announcing the launch of a new website, for a new airship company called Varialift, it's a rigid-airship concept, for a freight airship, that doesn't need a large ground crew to handle cause it has, as the name suggests variable lift. On the ground it is heavier than air and with it's variable buoyancy units becomes lighter-than-air to take off. It's a great concept and I'm looking forward to seeing it. Check out the new Website http://www.varialift.com/. Of course we will keep you updated, on the going ons with this project. Please also give Mister A. Handley a feedback on his website.