Hot air airships are designed primarily for aerial advertising.
Features are stainless steel construction and Rotax 582 UL engines.
The pressurised envelope can be adapted for night flight with internal illumination for the advertising impact.
The design of the X-Series is focused on achieving the fastest controllable climb and descent rates possible.
The resulting envelope is a 24 gore flat panel competition envelope.
The Classic Type range has been designed for the sport or private pilot. The 12 gore envelope gives stable and predictable performance even in high rates of descent.
The shape of the envelope actively prevents undue rotation during climb and descent.
Lindstrand refinements are available but the Classic comes standard with just two controls – a parachute line and main blast valve.
The ‘C’ type envelope has been designed to give a greater overall height to equator diameter ratio. This improves the speed of control response.
The ‘c’ type was available in two sizes.
Volume: 500,000 cu.ft
Volume: 600,000 cu.ft
Passenger capacity: 32
The A+ envelope is constructed in 24, 28 or 32 gores, depending on the size. The shape of the envelope is designed to produce a gradual transition from level flight into descent or ascent.
The almost flat surface is constructed from 24 gores of rip-stop nylon.
Lindstrand Balloons is a manufacturer of hot air balloons and other aerostats. The company was started by Swedish-born pilot and aeronautical designer Per Lindstrand in Oswestry, England, after he left Thunder & Colt in 1978. Lindstrand Balloons is known for its leading-edge engineering, which includes sophisticated testing and production facilities.
Of note, Lindstrand Balloons designed and built all of the hot air balloons flown by Per Lindstrand and Richard Branson on their record breaking flights first across the Atlantic Ocean in 1987 and then the Pacific Ocean in 1990. Lindstrand’s then designed and built three Rozière balloons that Per Lindstrand and Branson (and others, including aeronautical engineer Alex Ritchie, and adventurer, Steve Fossett) used in their unsuccessful attempts to circumnavigate the Earth by balloon. Per Lindstrand played an instrumental role in making these flights possible, and was pilot for all of them.
In the late-1990s, Cameron Balloons and its owner Don Cameron acquired two-thirds ownership of Lindstrand Balloons. Cameron bought the majority stake in Lindstrand Balloons from Rory McCarthy, a British industrialist associated with Richard Branson, who had invested in Lindstrand to support Branson’s series of record-setting balloon flights. The remaining third of the company is owned by its founder Per Lindstrand.
Despite Cameron’s ownership, Lindstrand Balloons continues to operate as an independent company with separate management and its own distinct designs and products. Per Lindstrand also independently operates a separate company, Lindstrand Technologies, which designs and builds gas balloons, innovative buildings, specialized aerospace equipment (including an advanced parachute for the Beagle 2 Mars-lander) and inflatable structures including aircraft hangars, plugs for fire-containment for road tunnels and flood prevention systems.
In 2011 Lindstrand Hot Air Balloons Ltd, based in Oswestry, Shropshire in the UK, had been building lighter-than-air craft on the same site for over 25 years and had its designs certified in 48 countries.
Lindstrand Balloons design special shaped envelopes. Once approved, computer aided technology turns the visual into a full working drawing which manufacture uses. All these envelopes are fully EASA approved.
The 1931 three seat Sky-Lark was designed by Arnold H Galvin, a Lincoln School of Flying A&E instructor, and built as a class project.
It was registered N11050 to John Evans of Lincoln. Power was a 120hp Cessna-Anzani.
2415 O St
Lincoln NB.
USA
Circa 1931 airplane builder
The last design of the Lincoln Aircraft Corp was the parasol wing Lincoln Playboy of 1931. A two place pusher powered by a 25 hp Lincolcn Rocket engine, the aircraft could attain a top speed of 80 mph and cruis at 70 mph. The price in 1931 was US$800.
