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Definition of Lighter-than-air craft
1. Noun. Aircraft supported by its own buoyancy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lighter-than-air Craft
Literary usage of Lighter-than-air craft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"lighter-than-air craft are divided into common balloons, kite (or station) balloons,
... The practice of denoting all gas bags as lighter-than-air craft ..."
2. ABC of Aviation: A Complete, Practical Treatise Outlining Clearly the by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"... CHAPTER II lighter-than-air craft Spherical Balloon Parts—Hydrogen Gas for
Military Balloons—Control of Free Balloons—Free or Captive Spherical Balloons ..."
3. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"lighter-than-air craft are divided into common balloons, kite (or station) ...
The practice of denoting all gas bags as lighter-than-air craft may lead to ..."
4. The A-B-C of Aviation: A Complete, Practical Treatise Outlining Clearly the by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"... CHAPTER II lighter-than-air craft Spherical Balloon Parts—Hydrogen Gas for
Military Balloons—Control of Free Balloons—Free or Captive Spherical Balloons ..."
5. Applied Aerodynamics by Leonard Bairstow (1920)
"... CRAFT All lighter-than-air craft obtain support for their weight by the
utilisation of the differences of the properties of two gases, usually air and ..."
6. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"Since the essential feature of lighter-than-air craft is their ability to float
in the air much as a vessel floats in the water, and since the only ..."
7. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"Since the essential feature of lighter-than-air craft is their ability to float
in the air much as a vessel floats in the water, and since the only ..."
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