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What element is used to fill airships and balloons?

Helium is typically used to fill airships and balloons due to its low density, which allows them to float in the air.


What do airships run on?

Airships typically run on one of two things: helium or hot air. Helium is a non-flammable gas that provides lift for the airship. Hot air is used in hot air balloons to provide lift by heating the air inside the balloon.


What are dirigibles?

Dirigibles are lighter-than-air aircraft that can be maneuvered by their own power. There are different kinds of dirigibles, such as blimps and airships, but all are distinguished from other lighter-than-air craft, such as balloons, which do not have their own steering and power sources.


Helium is used to fill airships and balloons because?

So the blimp will stay aloft/still adn will float.


Which gas is commonly used in balloons and airships?

Hydrogen was one of the earliest gases to be used for inflatable flying balloons, but following the Hindenberg disaster helium is now used, as it is chemically inert.


What gas is used in hot airships?

hot airships don't really exist. you get hot air balloons, but they're only marginally steerable. If you were to find a hot air ship, well, then lift would be provided by the hot air. The gas they'd use to create that hot air would be propane.


Are the Hindenburg and the goodyear blimp examples of hot air balloons?

No. All three are so-called "lighter than air" machines, because they're filled with gases that make tham buoyant in normal atmosphere. But the gases are different. The Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, and was destroyed in 1937, in a catastrophe so deadly and so graphic that hydrogen was never again used to float airships. Blimps today, including the Goodyears, are floated with helium. And hot-air balloons, as the name implies, are floated with . . . . .


From where are aerial photographys taken?

The air. A craft that can be in the air is usually used (couldn't use a ship eh?) such as an aeroplane or helicopter. During the first world war airships and reconnaissance balloons were used. Weather balloons and satellites can be used nowadays.


What is one use of helium?

Helium is used for inflating balloons and dirigible airships.


What has the author John A Baker written?

John A. Baker has written: 'British balloons' -- subject(s): Registers, Balloons, Airships


How are lighter than air devices steered?

By wind and altitude is in a hot air balloon the berson in the basket under the ballon will pull the trigger and the hot air will go it the balloon causing it to rise if they want to lowwer they will not pull the trigger


What element has the chemical symbol He?

Helium has the chemical symbol He. It is a noble gas that is lighter than air and is commonly used in balloons and airships due to its low density.