dirigible
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On another day, the paper flaunted the promise of “Aerial Queen Will Hover Above City” — that was Ruth Neely, the first woman to pilot a dirigible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
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
Seventeen stories tall, as wide as a football field and over 1,000 feet long, the wooden structures were built by the Navy in World War II to house dirigibles assigned to patrol the Pacific Coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 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
The "Love Myself" slogan was even emblazoned on dirigibles flown over the musicians' hometowns in 2017.
From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021
The “Love Myself” slogan was even emblazoned on dirigibles flown over the musicians’ hometowns in 2017.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
The huge, slow-moving dirigibles were later replaced by more reliable long-range airplanes, such as the German Gotha bombers that carried out daylight raids on London.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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