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This assumes a flexible envelope. Most airships are rigid. Volume doesn't change. Indeed, being rigid is what makes them airships and not blimps.
by TylerE 3y ago
This assumes a flexible envelope. Most airships are rigid. Volume doesn't change. Indeed, being rigid is what makes them airships and not blimps.
- Xylakant 3y agoRigid airships still have flexible gas bags (cells) inside. They just have a rigid hull around them.
- namibj 3y agoGoogle Loon or whatever they called the stratospheric balloons carrying solar powered cell/wifi base stations that made their way around the earth with the Jetstream or w/e used a bladder in the balloon that was inflated/deflated with ambient air. Similar to a ship taking/releasing ballast water in ballast tanks.