Dirigible is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Frank Capra for Columbia Pictures and starring Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Fay Wray....
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The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, the first powered and steerable (French: dirigeable)...
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The Dirigible/Balloon Pilot Insignia was a military decoration of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that was issued to those service...
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Wingfoot Air Express crash (redirect from Wingfoot (dirigible))
altitude of 1,200 ft (370 m) over the Chicago Loop. When it became clear the dirigible was failing, pilot Jack Boettner and chief mechanic Harry Wacker used...
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Zeppelin (redirect from Rigid dirigible airship)
explicitly with dirigibles: Article 198 "The armed forces of Germany must not include any military or naval air forces ... No dirigible shall be kept."...
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Naval Air Station Tillamook (redirect from US Naval Air Station Dirigible Hangar B)
Each hangar was designed to house up to six blimps. US Naval Air Station Dirigible Hangar B, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, is...
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Zeppelin mail (redirect from Dirigible mail)
Zeppelin mail was mail carried on zeppelins, the German airships that saw civilian use from 1908 to 1939. Almost every zeppelin flight carried mail, sometimes...
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Signal Corps Dirigible No. 1 was the first powered aircraft ordered for the Signal Corps by the Aeronautical Division of the United States Army. The purchase...
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The Joint Committee to Investigate Dirigible Disasters was created by House Concurrent Resolution 15, 73rd Congress, to investigate the cause of the Akron...
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The White Dwarf is a human-powered dirigible built in 1984 that set several world records. The White Dwarf was commissioned and funded by comedian Gallagher...
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Albert Caquot (redirect from Caquot dirigible)
Albert Caquot's aeronautics contributions included designing the "Caquot dirigible" and technical innovations at the new French Aviation Ministry, where...
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Along the way, Alex leaves clues for his parents, who follow in Izzy's dirigible. Imhotep uses the Book of the Dead to restore Anck-su-namun's soul into...
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Naval Air Station Weeksville (redirect from Weeksville Dirigible Hangar)
/ 36.229°N 76.135°W / 36.229; -76.135 (Weeksville Dirigible Hangar) The Weeksville Dirigible Hangar (former Naval Air Station Weeksville) is an airship...
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non-rigid airship, commonly called a blimp (/blɪmp/), is an airship (dirigible) without an internal structural framework or a keel. Unlike semi-rigid...
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"The White Dwarf", an episode of The Avengers White Dwarf (dirigible), a human powered dirigible that has set several world records White Dwarf (magazine)...
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and the powered Giffard dirigible airship. Giffard was born in Paris in 1825. He invented the injector and the Giffard dirigible, an airship powered with...
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Charles F. Ritchel (section Dirigible)
22, 1844 – January 21, 1911) was an American inventor of a successful dirigible design, the fun house mirror, a mechanical toy bank, and the holder of...
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Harold Geiger (section Balloons and dirigibles)
Section Headquarters in France as a lieutenant colonel. He completed dirigible studies in France and Italy. He was attached later to the Ambassador's...
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The New York Times Co. 1919. p. 2. Retrieved 25 November 2010. Winkler dirigible. "British Airship Burns with Crew; Twelve Lost When the NS-11 Falls Flaming...
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the starting point. On its seven flights in 1884 and 1885 the La France dirigible returned five times to its starting point. The La France was constructed...
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selfish as always, stealing the dirigible and abandoning the children. However, not knowing how to steer the dirigible, Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby crash into...
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Photo taken by Janssen, from the Meudon observatory, of Renard and Krebs' La France dirigible (1885)...
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in a test to determine the feasibility of carrying fighter aircraft on dirigibles, the airship C-1 lifted a US Army Curtiss JN-4 aircraft to 2,500 feet...
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27 km (17 mi) from the Paris Hippodrome to Trappes in a steam-powered dirigible, reaching a speed of about 10 km/h (6.2 mph). 1853 Late June or early...
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Jean Baptiste Meusnier (section Dirigible balloon)
evolution of hydrogen. Meusnier is sometimes portrayed as the inventor of the dirigible, because of an uncompleted project he conceived in 1784, not long after...
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Exposition, Roy Knabenshue piloted Thomas Scott Baldwin's California Arrow dirigible to a height of 2,000 feet (610 m) and was able to return to the takeoff...
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a dirigible that weighs 100 tons needs to displace 100 tons of air. If it displaces more, it rises; if it displaces less, it falls. If the dirigible displaces...
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recognized that a steerable, or dirigible, balloon was required. Jean-Pierre Blanchard flew the first human-powered dirigible in 1784 and crossed the English...
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