One of the UK’s leading authorities on airship design gives a technical view of how airship design evolved from the first airship up to the mid-1970s. Mowforth also explores problems experienced in airship design in some detail, including static lift, aerodynamics, structures and materials.

Dr Edwin Mowforth CEng MRAeS gave his lecture to the Airship Association Members Meeting at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Lecture Theatre on 24 September 1975 and the podcast was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS.