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AEREON III
The AEREON III was an experimental hybrid airship of rigid construction built by the AEREON Corporation in the early 1960s. Of unconventional design, the airship featured three gas envelopes attached side-by-side, with the connecting structures shaped as airfoils to create extra lift as the craft moved forward. Intended as a small prototype craft that would precede the development of much larger hybrid airships, the ''AEREON III'' was constructed between 1959 and 1965 but was destroyed during taxiing tests in 1966 and scrapped without having flown. It was "the first rigid airship to be built since ''Graf Zeppelin II''".
==Background==
(詳細はSolomon Andrews's 1863 airship ''Aereon'', a three-hulled craft—like ''AEREON III''—that could make forward progress without an engine by alternately dropping ballast and valving hydrogen.〔〔McPhee, p. 124.〕 (''Aereon II'' was Andrews's second airship, a single-hulled craft.)〔
''AEREON III'' was designed by Fitzpatrick and constructed between 1959 and 1965 at Mercer County Airport in Trenton, New Jersey. The construction work was carried out by Everett Linkenhoker, an airship rigger hired on the recommendation of Aereon's consultant, the distinguished airship aviator and retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Charles Rosendahl.〔McPhee, pp. 44, 47.〕
Future versions of the airship were envisaged as being up to long, possibly with nuclear propulsion.〔 Even "thousand-foot automated Aereons moving in connected trains through the lower atmosphere" were foreseen by some of those involved.〔McPhee, p. 47.〕
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