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The fabric-clad rigid airships were given commissions, the same as warships. [1]USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) - served 1923-25, lost 3 September 1925 due to structural failure while in line squalls, 14 killed
Rigid airships consist of a structural framework usually covered in doped fabric containing a number of gasbags or cells containing a lifting gas. In the majority of airships constructed before the Second World War, highly flammable hydrogen was used for this purpose, resulting in many airships such as the British R101 and the German Hindenburg being lost in catastrophic fires.
Rigid airships of the United States Navy (1 C, 3 P) Z. Zeppelins (2 C, 60 P) Pages in category "Rigid airships" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 ...
List of airships of the United States Navy; Z. List of Zeppelins; List of Zodiac airships This page was last edited on 21 September 2015, at 14:21 (UTC). Text is ...
A large number of rigid and non-rigid airships were mainly used to counter the U-Boat campaign in World War I. Interest in military airships declined at the end of the war, but some success in the commercial field inspired the Imperial Airship Scheme ; however, the disastrous crash of the R101 in 1930 ended serious government and commercial ...
Production number Class Tactical numbering First flight Remarks Fate Image LZ 26: N: Z XII 14 December 1914 Z XII made 11 attacks in northern France and at the eastern front, dropping 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) of bombs; by the summer of 1915 Z 12 had dropped around 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) of bombs on the Warsaw to Petrograd trunk railway line between the stations at Malkina and Białystok.
Euro Airship is planning an around-the-world, non-stop flight with Solar Airship One. It would be the first flight to make the trip without using fossil fuels.
Rigid airships (2 C, 13 P) T. Airship technology (24 P) Pages in category "Airships" ... US Navy airships during World War II; W. White Dwarf (dirigible) Z. Zeppelin ...