Airship Design: Burgess.pdf

4/5 Weakness? Burgess underestimated longitudinal bending from gusts – something the USS Shenandoah paid for. But his failure analysis was honest.

1/5 Burgess designed airships before finite elements. His hand-drawn load diagrams for ring frames are art + physics .

#Airships #AerospaceEngineering #LighterThanAir #Burgess #NACA #AviationHistory Post: 🪯 Found “Airship Design Burgess.pdf” – a 1925 NACA report by Charles P. Burgess. Thread on why it still matters ↓