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    The ZMC-2 (Zeppelin Metal Clad 200,000 cubic foot capacity) was the only successfully operated metal-skinned airship ever built. Constructed at Naval...
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  • ZMC is the U.S. Navy designation for an airship (Z) of metal-clad (MC) construction. The ZMC-2 was the only airship to carry this designation. Johnson...
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    internally braced as with the designs of David Schwarz, or monocoque as in the ZMC-2. Only four ships of this type are known to have been built, and only two...
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    aviation-grade material, being first used by the sector in the construction of the ZMC-2 airship. The material has significantly more resistance to corrosion than...
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    aluminum rigid airship of 1893 collapsed, while his second flew; the nonrigid ZMC-2 built for the U.S. Navy flew from 1929 to 1941 when it was scrapped as too...
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    structural failure, 2 killed (ZRCV), proposed successor to the Akron class, not built All other airships were registered as aircraft. ZMC-2, a metalclad-airship...
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  • a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna. The Empire State Building was the world's...
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    Development Corporation built the world's first all-metal airship, the ZMC-2, for the Navy in a large hangar. Amelia Earhart is rumored to have stopped...
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    airships and airship mooring towers. The first "Metalclad" airship, the ZMC-2, was constructed for the U.S. Navy in 1929. Detroit Aircraft Corp. owned...
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    featured an airship mooring station and hangar to test the Ford-sponsored ZMC-2 metal-hulled airship. The Model 3-AT trimotor was heavily promoted by Henry...
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  • founder Vladimir Pavlecka (1901–1980) – invented flush rivets, designed the ZMC-2 rigid airship and pressurized transports Nicolas Roland Payen (1914–2004)...
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  • of Detroit. Here, he became chief of hull design for the revolutionary ZMC-2 metal-clad airship, which first flew in 1929. Although the single ship built...
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  • African Research & Development. 5 (2): 123–136. JSTOR 43663913. Archived from the original on June 2, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2023. Young, Gordon (December...
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  • more mature, and was considered a better investment. A metalclad-airship, ZMC-2, is built by the Aircraft Development Corp (scrapped in 1941) The Empire...
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    Curtiss-Wright hangar, which became the base's primary hangar. The airship ZMC-2, the Navy's only all-metal airship, was constructed on the site from 1925...
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    1929 he was commissioned as test pilot of the radical metal-hulled airship ZMC-2, newly completed at Grosse Ile, Michigan. After a successful series of evaluation...
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    Born: Joan Taylor, actress, in Geneva, Illinois (d. 2012) The U.S. airship ZMC-2, the only dirigible with a skin of metal, was first flown. At least 18 Romanian...
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  • Detroit E-2 Sea Rover[circular reference] Detroit ZMC-2 (Zeppelin Metal Clad-2)[circular reference] Detroit DL-1 Vega[circular reference] Detroit DL-2 Sirius[circular...
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    Havilland DH.9A UK Propeller Bomber 1918 Single-engined piston biplane Detroit ZMC-2 US Airship Patrol 1929 1941 Two-engined piston blimp; single aircraft Donnet-Denhaut...
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  • A5587 Semi-rigid airship O-1 (airship) ZMC-2 Metal-skinned airship ZMC-2 ZR-1 Rigid airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) ZR-2 Rigid airship R38 class airship ZR-3...
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  • to Lakehurst and after the departure of J-4 to Sunnyvale, was with the ZMC-2, the only flying airships at Lakehurst until 1937. The K-1 last flew in...
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    duraluminum-skinned airship, the Detroit ZMC-2, launched from Detroit's Gross Ile Airport on 20 August 1929. The ZMC-2 remained in service until 1941, making...
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  • represented the Aircraft Development Corporation of Detroit which built ZMC-2, an all-metal dirigible designed by Ralph Hazlett Upson. Bruno was also...
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    Sec. 1 – Temporary Increase of Army Signal Corps and Aviation Sections Sec. 2 – Additional Commissioned Personnel Authorized Qualifications Appointments...
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    a new aircraft design. Their first job was working as draftsmen on the ZMC-2 airship, then construction on the Hess H-1 Bluebird line. Ford Trimotor...
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  • Michenaud and Chris Cowan, both former employees of ZMC Productions; the two acquired ownership of ZMC Productions in 1998 and renamed it Rocket Science...
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  • and Sherry. His daughter Wendy married Strauss Zelnick, the founder of ZMC and head of Take Two Interactive in 1990. His daughter Lisa, was married...
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    (3) 1986: TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen (6) 1987: ZMC Amicitia Zürich 1988: ZMC Amicitia Zürich (2) 1989: ZMC Amicitia Zürich (3) 1990: Grasshopper Club Zürich...
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    was then made private through acquisition by an investment group led by ZMC in 2010 and was re-incorporated as Alloy Digital in 2011. Within the next...
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  • Mizoram, Lalthanhawla, at Falkawn, about 16 km (9.9 mi) from Aizawl, Mizoram. ZMC is expected to meet the growing demand of Doctors in Mizoram. Construction...
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