Talk:U.S. Army airships

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Ok, here is a reasonably short but comprehensive account of the Army Airship Service.

I'm pretty new at Wikipedia but am trying to learn. Any recommendations or pointers will be appreciated.

Should I create stubs describing the different classes of Army airships?

Re: Adding tabs

I appreciate all the work you did creating the US Army Airships page. I think the tabs you suggested might be helpful. I would also love to see photographs and/or any diagrams you may have available added to your webpage Thanks again. EthelmarieEthelmarie 01:33, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am still pretty new to Wikipedia work and have not yet done much with photos.

Re: Editing an Early Effort

I have returned to 'fix' some major deficiencies (inadequate citations) and some mistakes introduced by others who have just started to pursue that elusive subject, US Army Airships.

One motive was the failure of the HALE-D, a US Army experimental airship designed to provide a long-duration data relay capability over forward operating areas.

The airship was intended to operate at extremely high altitudes, similar to those probed by the Army airship pilots who flew the National Geographic Explorer stratospheric balloons in the 1930s. HALE-D is intended to be solar-powered. The first test was launched from the Goodyear Air Dock constructed to build the US Navy's airships Akron and Macon, mentioned as benefiting from US Army Airship experiments.

Only touched upon in the article, for fear of the DREADED 'Original Research" Damnation, is the perfect example of inter-service rivalry over roles which motivated the Lighter-Than-Air policies of both the USN and US Army during the inter-war period.

Yet that struggle, one fought by those who were already losing the greater struggle between lighter than air and heavier than air flight, is perhaps the most valuable insight which might be obtained from studying the US Navy and US Army airship programs.Mark Lincoln (talk) 01:02, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am finished for now. I think it would be prudent to create a separate category for the two Semi-Rigid airships the Army operated. This is because both were experimental, rather than operational in nature. The desire of the Army for much greater capabilities in range, duration and lifting capability motivated the purchase of the two airships.70.241.19.66 (talk) 15:20, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I see two 'communities' have claimed this article.

The first refuses to have some of the most essential statistics about airships permitted in within it's specifications and performance figures.

The other seems desperate to gather some glory.