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  2. List of current airships in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Spirit of Goodyear, one of the iconic Goodyear Blimps. This is a list of airships with a current unexpired Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) [1] registration.. In 2021, Reader's Digest said that "consensus is that there are about 25 blimps still in existence and only about half of them are still in use for advertising purposes". [2]

  3. Airship - Wikipedia

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    A modern airship, Zeppelin NT D-LZZF in 2010 The LZ 129 Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built and was destroyed in 1937. Dirigible airships compared with related aerostats, from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1890–1907

  4. List of airships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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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

  5. Goodyear Blimp - Wikipedia

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    The term blimp itself is defined as a non-rigid airship—without any internal structure, the pressure of lifting gas within the airship envelope maintains the vessel's shape. From the launch of the Pilgrim in 1925 to the retiring of the Spirit of Innovation in 2017, Goodyear generally owned and operated non-rigid airships in its global public ...

  6. U.S. Army airships - Wikipedia

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    Amongst the most interesting U.S. Army Airship Service experiments was to pursue the ability to operate airplanes from airships. While both the Germans and British had experimented with releasing fighters from rigid airships, it was the US Army that first flew an airplane from the ground and 'hooked' on to a trapeze suspended from an airship.

  7. Zeppelin - Wikipedia

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    The biggest raid to date was launched on 2–3 September, when twelve German Navy and four Army airships set out to bomb London. A combination of rain and snowstorms scattered the airships while they were still over the North Sea. Only one of the naval airships came within seven miles of central London, and both damage and casualties were slight.

  8. Airship Industries - Wikipedia

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    Airship Industries was a British manufacturers of modern non-rigid airships ... In 1993, Westinghouse was "still hopeful" that a prototype YEZ-2A would fly in 1998 ...

  9. Airborne aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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    With lengths of 785 ft (239 m), Akron and Macon were among the largest flying objects in the world and still hold the world record for helium-filled airships. [citation needed] They were just 20 ft (6.1 m) shorter than the German hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg. Akron first flew on 8 August 1931 and Macon followed on 21 April 1933. The ...