Dirigible

Dirigible Airships were originally called dirigible balloons from the Latin dirigere, meaning to direct or steer.

Yes, folks, the great orange dirigible is miraculously re-inflating across the Atlantic.

You know the pen — tapered at the ends, like an elongated dirigible, with a thin metal ring around the waist and a restaurant logo on its side.

During this period, Tsiolkovsky began working on a problem that would occupy much of his time during the coming years: an attempt to build an all-metal dirigible that could be expanded or shrunk in size.

Including the initial and final trips between Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst and back, the dirigible had travelled convert.

Nowadays the term "airship" is used only for powered, dirigible balloons, with sub-types being classified as rigid, semi-rigid or non-rigid.

On its seven flights in 1884 and 1885 citation the La France dirigible returned five times to its starting point.

Pearson Field Airport in Vancouver, Washington had a dirigible land in 1905 and planes in 1911 and is still in use.

Sometimes this term is applied only to non-rigid balloons, and sometimes dirigible balloon is regarded as the definition of an airship (which may then be rigid or non-rigid).

The Empire State Building was completed in 1931 with a dirigible mast, in anticipation of passenger airship service.

The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible.

View from a French dirigible approaching a ship in 1918.

ZR-3 USS Los Angeles over southern Manhattan Under these circumstances, Eckener managed to obtain an order for the next American dirigible.