dirigible

“Let’s Fly” exhibition, are striped, spotted, shaped like doughnuts and light up in the night sky like condensed, dirigible versions of Ugo Rondinone’s “Seven Magic Mountains” sculpture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024

In 1936, he witnessed the Hindenburg airship, the world’s largest dirigible, as it passed over Brusque, which is about 700 miles south of Rio de Janeiro.

From Washington Post ● May 14, 2022

Walter Wellmann lifted off in the dirigible “America,” only to ditch it off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when a storm hit shortly afterward.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

Lowman has also accessed the canopy using construction cranes and an inflatable raft attached to a dirigible.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021

What he saw was the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

Located just across Fairfax from where the airfield once stood, the eye-catching spherical building’s design is, according to my Times colleague Carolina Miranda, “inspired by the dirigibles that used to touch down in the area.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

The federal government began to hoard the gas 100 years ago to ensure supplies for military dirigibles and later, the space program.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 5, 2023

But before that, hundreds of passenger trips were completed on the dirigibles.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

The "Love Myself" slogan was even emblazoned on dirigibles flown over the musicians' hometowns in 2017.

From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021

I sucked in my breath until my lungs felt like twin dirigibles inside my ribs.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg