dirigible

The 10 days of derring-do acrobatics and races by celebrity plane and dirigible pilots did far more than even Los Angeles boosters might have dreamed.

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

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

Much as I dream recurringly about shrinking babies, I dream that the sky is covered from horizon to horizon with rows of airplanes, dirigibles, rocket ships, flying bombs, their formations as even as stitches.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston