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One tragic accident ends the era of airship travel - the Hindenberg disaster

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Oct 17

Following on from my discussion about blimps, the ill-fated LZ-129 Hindenberg was a rigid dirigible or airship. In its time, the airship was the fastest and most comfortable way to cross the Atlantic. For over 30 years, tens of...

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Is it a plane? Is it a bird? It's a blimp!

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Oct 17

While travelling in France and somewhere near Mont-Saint-Michel we saw this blimp. It was advertising L’Archange Crêperie Restaurant. A blimp is an airship or dirigible which does not have an internal framework of a keel....

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Who would like te see blimps and drones all over the sky ?

Clateman @Clateman (20) • Grande Prairie, Alberta 26 May 16

Imagine if blimps of every size and shape that lanchappie drones for loading and unloading passages and cargo and are powered by solar energy and only need one person for a whole fleet I think with today's tech it's totally...

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Would you like to travel by airship?

Citizen_Stuart @Citizen_Stuart (2016) 19 May 08

I don't mean a little blimp, I mean if a company built the modern equivalent of one of the great old luxury airliners like the Hindenberg and flew it across the Atlantic or whatever, would you like to book a trip on it? I think it...

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