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Re: SE5, SE5A, Camel, Bristol

Postby FLYING_TRUCKER » Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:00 pm

Now that is interesting as I though all airships used rudder and elevators...it would have seemed the simple logical solution. :)

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Re: SE5, SE5A, Camel, Bristol

Postby Hagar » Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:04 pm

It works very well. Airship Industries was a British company. One of their Skyship 500 series blimps was featured in the Bond film "A View to a Kill". (The flying sequences were filmed at Amberley just north of where I live.) I don't know why the company collapsed but it was taken over by Westinghouse in the 90s & now trades under the name Global Skyship Industries. http://www.myairship.com/database/wai.html

The founders moved back to the UK & started a new outfit named Advanced Technologies Group. http://www.atg-airships.com/

PS. Going by the photo of the Skyship 600 from my link it has conventional rudders.
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Re: SE5, SE5A, Camel, Bristol

Postby FLYING_TRUCKER » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:05 am

Thanks for the sites Doug...will check them out :)

Always been partial to aircraft with more than one wing, airships and balloons.

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Re: SE5, SE5A, Camel, Bristol

Postby Felix/FFDS » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:44 am


Always been partial to aircraft with more than one wing, airships and balloons.

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Re: SE5, SE5A, Camel, Bristol

Postby FLYING_TRUCKER » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:13 pm

Just visited all the sites posted in this thread.  Marvelous and very educational.  Especially the Airships...I like the idea of how they could be used to relieve the world of land mines.
Yes and to help us stamp out drug smugglers, poachers, monitor the environment and so much much more.
My knowledge on airships is very limited and would like to see more threads posted on these marvelous machines.
Doug, visited one site on the SE5A you supplied above and saw a properly dressed airman, olive drab uniform, riding boots, spurs, riding breeches, sam brown belt and the proper headdress (forage cap) and not a dammed beret that belongs on a tankers head or an airborne types head. :)
Of course the World War Two RAF or RCAF Battle Dress with Forage Cap were and in my opinion still are one of the smartest looking uniforms designed.

Thanks for the info...looking forward to more!

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