METAL-CLAD AIRSHIP HULL CONSTRUCTION

摘要

A metal-clad airship hull structure in which the hull skin is thin and varies in thickness, diminshing from maximum thickness at the top of the hull toward the bow and stern and perimetrally toward the bottom. The hull utilizes internal circular transverse principal and secondary frames and external longerons. The internal frames and the external longerons are individually continuous and triangular in cross-section and utilize corrugated shear webs in each side surface of the triangle.