Eros Corporation
| Eros Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1987 |
| Seat | Montebello (California) , USA |
| management |
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| Number of employees | 100 |
| Branch | Aviation industry , aviation industry |
| Website | aeroscraft.com |
The Eros Corporation is a US company in the aviation industry, which has specialized in the development and production of aerostats as well as hybrid and rigid airships.
history
The origins of the company go back to a voluntary airship construction work group set up in 1981 by the later company founder Igor Pasternak at the National Polytechnic University of Lviv (Ukraine) . The company was founded in 1986 as the first private company in the aviation industry under the perestroika initiated by Gorbachev . Eros has had its headquarters in the USA since 1994, where it also carries out the main development and production work. The company's airship hangar in California is 30 meters long, 91 meters wide and 55 meters high and is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.
In 2005 Eros won the contract for a lighter-than-air research project, which had been awarded by the DARPA . Since then, the company has been developing and constructing the prototype of a new type of cargo airship under the project name Aeroscraft , which is designed as a rigid airship . In contrast to the company Cargolifter AG , which pursued a similar business purpose but had to file for bankruptcy in 2002 , Eros chose a technologically different approach.
developments
Eros-40A
- Type: two-seater impact airship , introduced in 1995
- The airship can be attached to an anchor mast . A ground crew of twelve is required. The ship is equipped with two holding lines at the bow and two at the stern.
The airship is equipped with two ballonets , one in the front and one in the back of the envelope. These have a maximum volume of 238 m³ each (28% of the envelope volume) and are attached to the bottom of the envelope. The ballonets are each inflated with an electric fan and each has a pneumatically operated spring-return air release valve. The helium pressure relief valve opens at an excess pressure of 747 Pa (7.47 mbar = 3 inches of water column).
Technical specifications
- Total length: 37.2 m
- Cover length: 36.6 m
- largest diameter: 9.5 m
- largest volume: 1700 m³
- Cover material: Polyurethane- coated welded nylon fabric ( 7-ply )
- Advertising space per side: (2800 sq ft ) (without lighting)
- Empty weight: 360 kg
- Payload: 180 kg
- Tail unit in X-arrangement from a covered aluminum frame
- The gondola consists of an aluminum-covered aluminum frame. Ballast is attached to the gondola.
- Cabin length: 1.68 m
- Cabin height: 1.55 m
- Cabin width: 1.60 m
- Chassis: 2 chassis legs with shock absorbers
- Top speed: 68 km / h
- Max. Duration of use: 24 hours
- Operating altitude: 0-10,000 ft (0-3048 m)
- Max. Rate of climb and descent: 2000 ft / min (610 m / min)
- It is driven by two Limbach L1700 motors.
- Maximum output: 51 kW at 3600 rpm (briefly)
- Tank capacity: 83 liters for about 6 hours of flight
- Control: electronic fly-by-wire - control with pneumatic actuators of rowing
Eros-40B Sky Dragon
The first studies on the 40B began in 1997. The FAA type certificate was issued in June 2000. In January 2002 the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt issued the type certification. In 2004, an unmanned version called the Model 40U was developed on the ship with the serial number 19.
- five-seat impact airship (1 pilot)
- Total length: 43.6 m
- Volume: 2508 m³
- Ballonets: 2 × 274.6 m³
- Tail unit: X configuration
- Drive: 2 × Teledyne Continental IO-240-B , 4-cylinder with 93.2 kW each and three-blade controllable pitch propeller (MT propeller MT-7-D / LD170-12)
- Top speed: 82 km / h
- Empty weight: 1914 kg
- Payload: 676 kg
The case can be illuminated from the inside for advertising purposes.
In May 2005 work was carried out on the 20th and 21st Aeros-40B airship.
Eros-40C (project)
- 14 seats (1 pilot)
- Total length: 90 m
Eros-50
- Maiden flight: 1994
- two-seater (1 pilot)
- Total length: 23.93 m
- Volume: 743 m³
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helene Laube: Air freight by zeppelin: Just let everything fly. Financial Times Deutschland, December 5, 2012, archived from the original on May 26, 2013 ; Retrieved January 8, 2013 .