dirigible
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In August 1929, Angelenos swarmed the site to gawk at the Graf Zeppelin dirigible stopping by on its world tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
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
Other inventions, which never quite succeeded, included a sailboat with an adjustable mast, a dirigible, a fiberglass ukulele and a solid-foam football, with grooves in the surface.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2021
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
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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