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    The 23 class were rigid airships produced in the United Kingdom during the First World War. Development of the 23 class began in August 1915 when Vickers...
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    The R.33 class of British rigid airships were built for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, but were not completed until after the...
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    The two Hindenburg-class airships were hydrogen-filled, passenger-carrying rigid airships built in Germany in the 1930s and named in honor of Paul von...
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  • Class 23 may refer to: 23-class airship Belgian Railways Class 23, electric locomotive British Rail Class 23 "Baby Deltic", diesel-electric locomotive...
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    An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power...
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    The R.38 class (also known as the A class) of rigid airships was designed for Britain's Royal Navy during the final months of the First World War, intended...
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    class of rigid airships were developed during World War I using the experience gained from the 23 class, but only two of the planned four R.23X class...
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    Scout Zero) non-rigid airships or "blimps" were developed in United Kingdom during World War I from the earlier SS ("Sea Scout") class. The main role of these...
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    The Akron-class airships were a class of two rigid airships constructed for the US Navy in the early 1930s. Designed as scouting and reconnaissance platforms...
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    SS (Submarine Scout or Sea Scout) class airships were simple, cheap and easily assembled small non-rigid airships or "blimps" that were developed as a...
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    pressure airships) and semi-rigid airships. Rigid airships are often commonly called Zeppelins, though this technically refers only to airships built by...
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    Airship development in the United Kingdom lagged behind that of Germany and France. The first British designed and built airship was constructed by Stanley...
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    semi-rigid airships. Wingfoot One, the first such model in Goodyear's U.S. fleet, was christened on August 23, 2014, at the Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar,...
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    The R31 class of British rigid airships was constructed in the closing months of World War I, and comprised two aircraft, His Majesty's Airship R31 and...
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    Blimp (redirect from Non-rigid airship)
    A 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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  • class airship Astra-Torres airship SS class airship SSP class airship SST class airship SSZ class airship Coastal class airship C Star class airship NS class...
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    commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was...
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    Ferdinand von Zeppelin (category German airship aviators)
    general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s...
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    The N-Class, or as popularly known, the "Nan ship", was a line of non-rigid airships built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio for the US Navy...
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  • US had 10 nonrigid airships: Combat & Patrol Ships 2 TC-class blimps: older patrol ships built in 1933 for the US Army's airship operations. The US Navy...
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    The Dixmude was a Zeppelin airship built for the Imperial German Navy as L 72 (c/n LZ 114) and unfinished at the end of the First World War, when it was...
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  • project saw only the civilian R100 and R101 airships to completion. The two rigid airships of the Akron class, Akron and Macon, were built for scouting...
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    with rigid airships to launch and recover fighters were carried out during World War I. The British experimented with the 23-class airships from that time...
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    Thrust vectoring (category Airship technology)
    SU-30MKI and derivatives) 23 class airship, a series of British, World War 1 airships Airship Industries Skyship 600 modern airship Zeppelin NT modern, thrust–vectoring...
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    Hindenburg disaster (category Accidents and incidents involving balloons and airships)
    passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It...
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    Schütte-Lanz (SL) airships were a series of rigid airships designed and built by the Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz company from 1909 until 1917. One research...
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    The G-Class Blimps were a series of non-rigid airships (blimps) used by the United States Navy. In 1935, instead of developing a new design airship, the...
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  • The R100 was scrapped in November 1931. HMA No. 1 No. 9r 23 class airship No. 23r R26 SS class blimp R80 R100 Vickers formed Vickers Ltd (Aviation Department)...
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    The L-class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II. In the mid-1930s, the Goodyear Aircraft Company built...
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    Goodyear GZ-20 (category Airships of the United States)
    The Goodyear GZ-20/20A was a class of non-rigid airship or blimp introduced in 1969 by The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in the United States as its...
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