The SSZ (Sea Scout Zero) non-rigid airships or "blimps" were developed in United Kingdom during World War I from the earlier SS ("Sea Scout") class. The...
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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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The C-Star class (sometimes written as C* class) of non-rigid airships or "blimps" were used by Britain's Royal Naval Air Service for convoy escort duties...
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(Royal Naval Air Service) Howden airship station on 16 August that year. Sharing a hangar with R.27 was a makeshift SSZ class blimp that was being assembled...
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Blimp (redirect from Non-rigid airship)
British Army airship Beta Coastal class airship, C* class airship UK coastal blimps used in WW I SS, SSP, SST, SSZ and NS class airships, convoy escort...
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airships were later replaced by eight SSZ class airships, which had greater speed, endurance and bomb load. The airships communicated by radio with a relay...
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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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a class of Royal Navy non-rigid airship or "blimp" developed by the United Kingdom during World War I as a successor to the earlier SS class airship. Found...
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British blimps operated by the USN (category Airships of the United States Navy)
blimps. Operations were flown in a US SSZ and airships operated by the Royal Navy. The US Navy purchased two SSZ class blimps, which were 142 feet (43 m)...
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Sub-Committee, submitted to the First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher that a rigid airship based on the German Zeppelin be designed and constructed by the firm of...
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class airship, Sea Scout Zero SSZ class airship and C-Class or Coastals Coastal class airship, all non-rigid airships, operated over the Irish Sea, Bristol...
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UK zeppelin fighter 1914 SS class airship UK patrol blimp 1915 SST class airship UK patrol blimp 1918 SSZ class airship UK patrol blimp 1916 Vickers...
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manufacturers. Spherical crewed free gas balloons used for airship crew training were considered ZF-class aircraft but categorically never received formal designations...
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(Coastal) class - 35 airships, the first entered service in March 1916, being a rebuild of a Franco-Spanish Astra-Torres airship SSZ (Sea Scout Zero) class -...
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RNAS Capel (section Airship production)
Capel went on to design an improved variant of the SS airship, which would be known as the SSZ. The SSZ had an improved aluminium covered ash-framed car and...
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Rolls-Royce Hawk (category Airship engines)
the SSZ class coastal patrol airships of which 76 were built. Avro 504F Farman MF.7 Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 SS class blimp (1 example) SSP class blimp...
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Service airship, R27, destroyed in a hangar fire at RNAS Howden along with a makeshift SSZ class blimp and two SSZ class blimps, SSZ.38 and SSZ.54. One...
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anti-submarine patrol, the airships being built in a number of types, such as the SS class, the SST class, the SSP class, and the SSZ class. For flying boats,...
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