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The Institute was founded in 1989 to publish a periodical, GASBAG, now renamed AIRSHIPWORLD; this worldwide review of lighter-than-air (mainly airship) topics circulates to readers around the globe. It has grown in page count during this time and with the March 1996 issue (#27) the US journal Aerostation was incorporated following the death of Editor Don Woodward.  The Institute has also published several LTA-related books, as may be seen on adjacent pages.

With Marc de Piolenc taking over the editorship of Aerostation, the journal now has access to the combined resources of both the Institute substantial files and the extensive ABAC Technical Library. These resources total over 400 LTA books, over 3000 technical reports, manuals, design reviews and proposals, appraisals, commercial and structural analyses, patent specifications, many hundreds of plans and drawings of airships and their sub-assemblies,several thousand photographs and thousands of press clippings.

SOME COMMENTS FROM OUR PEERS:

• ".... a very attractive, professional looking magazine, and, what's more important, full of interesting and important material."
- the late Don Woodward, Editor of  AEROSTATION, Journal of ABAC, USA. (Writing before his death and the incorporation of the journal into GASBAG (now AIRSHIPWORLD).
• ".... let me congratulate you on its quality, and particularly the photographs. Where do you get them all?"
- the late Dale Topping, former Editor of BUOYANT FLIGHT, Journal of the Lighter-Than-Air Society, USA.
• " .... GASBAG Journal only gets better and better - keep up the good work!"
- Eric Brothers, current Editor of BUOYANT FLIGHT.
• " I do appreciate the reports on Patents and scarce documents"
• "....an excellent article on the DZR and its operations"
- John Duggan, Editor of ZEPPELIN, Newsletter of the Zeppelin Study Group, England.
• ".... covers a surprisingly global view of LTA ... includes many pictures - technically and editorially well-done."
- Capt. M. Henry Eppes (USN Retd.,) Editor of THE NOON BALLOON, Newsletter of the Naval Airship Association, USA.
• ".... thanks for the latest GASBAG - a superb issue!"
- Den Burchmore, Hon. Curator, Airship Heritage Trust Museum Collection (formerly FOCAS), UK.
• ".... as usual a splendid issue and I envy you the ability to print in colour."
- Arnold Nayler, Hon. Editor of AIRSHIP, journal of the Airship Association, UK.