dirigible
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
dirigible or dirigible balloon: see airship .
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POLES APART DIRIGIBLE EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE ENDED IN FEUD AND, EVENTUALLY, FATALITIES.(Lifestyle)
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... shoot it. It was the Norge, a Norwegian dirigible, heavy with ice and pitching in the wind ... Umberto Nobile. Villagers seized the dirigible's anchor and mooring ropes and guided ... try another kind of flying machine - a dirigible. In 1925, he and his backers purchased ...
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... the control car, which hung beneath the dirigible's huge helium-filled belly. "Slow all ... serving aboard the USS Akron when the rigid dirigible had crashed in a storm off the New Jersey ... the first in a decade-long series of dirigible disasters. As a result of this tremendously ...
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OUT OF THE PAST, DIRIGIBLE MAY REJOIN U.S. ARSENAL.(LOCAL)
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... How elevating it is to read that the dirigible is coming back. Its main purpose in the ... That's nothing compared to seeing a dirigible gradually filling the sky, growing larger ... slid over us. The thunder died as the dirigible disappeared. They came out of Ohio and ...
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... live. "Ask to see the infamous dirigible landing on the rooftop tower ... Wisconsin. No arriving or departing dirigibles were in sight. He's not swearing ... It does look somewhat like the dirigible dock atop the Empire State Building ... Wisconsin Tower has come to a dirigible is all the Led Zeppelin ...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1930: Dirigible Crash
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International Herald Tribune 10-06-2005 PARIS: The British dirigible R-101, carrying the most distinguished passenger list ever to fly the air, crashed its nose into a little hill above a shallow ...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1930: Undaunted Dirigible
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Day of the dirigible: Massive crowd watched U.S. first lady Lou Hoover christen USS Akron in August 1931.
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Hindenburg crash recalled: Luxurious Nazi dirigible burst into flames 70 years ago today
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... fireball. Flames roared across the surface of the mighty German dirigible only 100 or so feet above him, singeing his hair as he ran ... his camera. "He was just going to make a nice picture of a dirigible coming in. And then it blew, right when he had his finger ... 89, an AP photographer of 66 years who was ...
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... and, oh the humanity, the Hindenburg. Dirigibles - massive flying machines that went ... Colorado Springs. The 700- to 800-foot-long dirigibles of the 1930s could soar up to 15,000 ... the first airship was built in 1900. Dirigibles came into vogue in World War I, when ...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1932: New Dirigible 'Unsafe'
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