Geodesic Airship Design
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Geodesic Airship Design is an airship design superior to its predecessors. Typical early airship design consisted of a tube of constant diameter with rounded caps at the ends. Such tubes often buckled because the length was too long for the diameter.
At the other extreme, a purely spherical airship design is aerodynamically unstable.
In between is a geodesic design, in which the radius of the tube increases "evenly" from the ends to the middle.
