THE very word airship implies a craft that will * plow the air, much as a large ship plows the sea. From the beginning, the principles of marine navigation have governed the design of dirigible ...

He died in 1882 at the age of 57. Giffard built the Giffard airship (also called the Giffard dirigible) - the world's first full-sized airship or dirigible. The Giffard airship was an elongated ...

An airship is capable of carrying so much more, with a greater degree of safety than an airplane, that all long distance carrying will necessarily be monopolized by dirigibles. "Norge" Strong in ...

Courtesy LTA Research. The airship also is safer than its 20th-century predecessors, such as the ill-fated Hindenburg dirigible that burned in Lakehurst, New Jersey with passengers aboard in 1937.

with the dirigible floating smoothly through the clouds. The Hindenburg was the first of two "Hindenburg" Class airships constructed by the Zeppelin Company. Construction of the airship began in ...

The demolishment of the British military airship by a storm last October, and the easy loss by the French soldiers of their first national military dirigible, has strongly brought out the fact ...

The Delver's Dirigible customization options are unlocked via Airship Schematics. These schematics are earned through progressing your Delver's Journey, where after reaching certain milestones a ...

Conflicting reports of the dirigible being sighted now here ... s watch stopped led to the supposition that the disabled airship collapsed and exploded suddenly at her end, carrying 48 brave ...