ALA-40 Thermoplane - 'Flying Saucer' Airship
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Uploaded by Husar101 on Mar 3, 2010
The ALA-40 was the first prototype of a flying saucer shaped airship by the Thermoplane Design Bureau.
The the full-size ALA-600 Thermoplane unballasted airship was designed to operate with heavy loads, without a base or mooring mast, in the difficult winter conditions prevailing in Siberia. It was finalised in 1989. By 1991 the first of three 1/5th scale prototypes (ALA 40 01) was completed at the Aviastar Industrial Complex at Simbirsk and ground tests started in 1992. The second prototype (ALA-40-02) was started in 1995, but lack of funding stopped construction.
Latest reports indicate that the project might be resurected.
Russian Volga region moves to produce flying saucers
http://en.rian.ru/science/20100303/158075013.html
The centre section of the 1/5th scale version ALA 40, a 40 m (131 ft) disc-shaped airship, is filled with 5,800 cu m (204,825 cu ft) of helium, the remaining 4,680 cu m (171,629 cu ft) being filled with high temperature exhaust from the turboprop propulsion engines. The envelope is described as thermoplastic with carbon fibre reinforcement based on Torlon.
The planned full size ALA-600 is to have the following dimensions:
- Length: 198 m (649 ft)
- Payload: 600,000 kg (1,322,770 lb)
- Range: 2,700 nm (5000 km)
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