Roger Munk

occupation:
Airship designer, Naval architect
Nationality:
British
born in:
Harrow on the Hill, Harrow, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Julian Nott specified the overall design of the (1974-593) 'High altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon cabin', with Roger Munk and Tony Offredi specialising on the cabin shell structure design.

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Cabin floor ‘F-Board’ composite, with aluminium honeycomb core and woven roving fibre-glass sheet on both sides; an affixed paper label reads: “Part Hot Air Balloon cabin floor. 1974-593 (From Julian Nott)”, by Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland, 1970-1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Cabin floor sample, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder
Cabin shell woven-roving carbon fibre and fibre-glass sheet sample; a taped-on label reads: “Sample piece of cabin shell made before construction of cabin”, designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon cabin: ‘Daffodil II’, with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Cabin shell sample, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder
Cabin floor ‘F-Board’ composite, with aluminium honeycomb infill and woven roving fibre-glass sheet on both sides, by Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland, 1970-1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon cabin: ‘Daffodil II’, with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Cabin floor sample, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder

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