an airship -- a lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. Airships are also known as dirigibles from the French dirigeable, meaning "steerable".
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This is a must-see film for people like me. I am a history teacher and love aviation and especially dirigibles.
Here, fortunately, is a homage to America's rather ill-fated dirigible service operated by the US Navy.
The aerial sequences are generally quite good and a lot of actual footage was rather seamlessly integrated into the film--in particular, the amazing Aviation Day sequence where two dirigibles and many non-rigid airships fill the screen.
His dirigible could fly only during calm weather because, by then, a strong enough motor, the dirigible’s starting device that would overcome everything stronger than a light breeze, had not been invented yet.
Their dirigibles will be able to fly at heights above 20,000 meters and control US boundaries at sea since they will be equipped with radars that can cover around 2000 square kilo- meters.
This travel "dirigible" of ours is already in use, it is flying over and will continue to fly over our country (indeed, a bit smaller and with a different name) and the rest of the planet.
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