How to land on an airship

[Nick]

Saw this wonderful drawing in the Royal Aeronautical Society after the P.1154 talk and had to share it. Only problem is it's in the Gents toilet, right at eye-level!

[Radish]

Brilliant....hope you washed your hands and didn't splash your shoes.....

[The Rat]

Sweet! But I'm more intrigued by the airship design, those stabilisers make it look as though it's built for speed.

[NARSES2]

Eye level for you possibly Nick 

[raafif]

Sweet! But I'm more intrigued by the airship design, those stabilisers make it look as though it's built for speed.

Looks more like an aircraft than an airship to me.  The H.P.42 Heracles comes to mind.

[The Rat]

Sweet! But I'm more intrigued by the airship design, those stabilisers make it look as though it's built for speed.

Looks more like an aircraft than an airship to me.  The H.P.42 Heracles comes to mind.

I was thinking both those same thoughts.

[Nick]

When I saw this my first thought was of an Avro York with that wide tapering tail. The plaque is wrong, it should read A Glimpse of the Future and was published on February 16th 1922. It is described as a Customs official landing on a 'big air liner'. 
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1922/1922%20-%200097.html?search=roderic future

Roderic Hill was a good artist and you can search Flight magazine online.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1921/1921%20-%200183.html?search=roderic  Aerial Policemen of the Future

View these two together....
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1921/1921%20-%200010.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1921/1921%20-%200011.html?search=roderic

[Old Wombat]

It might not be a picture of a plane landing on an airship.....

..... & the plaque may well be wrong.....

..... but the important point is.....

..... The principle is sound!


That landing technique could easily be used to land fighters on airship airplane carriers in a Steampunk world.