Word Finder - airship

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A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.

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Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.

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Any aircraft.

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On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.

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The highest ranking officials of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.

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To transport goods by aircraft.

The airship factory is situated on Walney which is connected with the mainland by a bridge with an opening span of 120 ft.

You can also buy it after you get an airship.

Other branches represented in Great Britain by the Royal Engineers are known in Germany by the title communication troops, and comprise railway, telegraph and airship and balloon battalions.

Then far away in the south he saw a great Asiatic airship going eastward.

The plan is to use the airship to deliver the orders to the man's foreign contacts.

Consider a submarine boat or airship moving freely with the direction of the resultant momentum horizontal, and the axis at a slight inclination 0.

The designer of five airships and the first man to fly an airship from England to France.

However, it was not until 1907 that a powered army airship became operational.

The pitch was only about 100 yards from the hangar doors in which the R101 airship was housed.

He's the cabin boy on board the luxury airship, the Aurora.

The Zeppelin Oak - October 2nd, 1916 The airship was the original " stealth bomber.

The fact that they were formed from salvage material from a portable airship hangar adds another layer of interest.

I tell them about the search for food, and about the mysterious manna of the airship.

It is actually easier to trace the development of the UFO mythos to the British airship scare of 1912-13.

Against a waterlogged, leaden gray sky, the zinc gray airship drifted slowly winking a tiny orange light.

The theory preceding is of practical application in the vestigation of the stability of the axial motion of a submarine oat, of the elongated gas bag of an airship, or of a spinning rifled rojectile.

In the course of the year three aviators were killed-Lefevbre and Ferber in September and Fernandez in December; and four men perished in September by the destruction of the French airship " Republique," the gas-bag of which was ripped open by a broken propeller.

But it was Count von Zeppelin's rigid airship of 1900 that proved air travel was possible.

Here a huge german airship flamed earthward with a dozen flat Asiatic craft about her, crushing her every attempt to recover.

Count von Zeppelin, a retired German army officer, flew his first airship in 1900.

Small numbers of Royal Flying Corps aeroplanes are kept at readiness to combat possible enemy airship raids.

All surviving airship logbooks are in AIR 3, including the logbooks for the R 100 and R 101.

Grove also set out the reasons why he thought the sighting had nothing to do with an airship.

Even if they can provide the power to move the airship, the whole project could be scuppered by the British weather.