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Norman Saunders
Camouflage zeppelin in winter
Cutaway of the german zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
The world's most successful zeppelin airship, serving for almost 9 years, and with a cumulative flight time of almost 2 years.
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USS _Shenandoah_
I never get bored of seeing the sheer humongous scale of airships like this that flew nearly one hundred years ago.
Here’s Zeppelin LZ129 Hindenburg at the hangar in Lakehurst, USA in 1936 (the year before the disaster) AP Photo.
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Illustrations for Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror by Léon Benett
Movie poster for Jules Verne's Master of the World
Proposed airship disembarcation for the Empire State Building. In the event it was never implemented.
USS Shenandoah airship cutaway
USS Macon over a US fleet
USS Los Angeles
USS Los Angeles and USS Saratoga
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The USS Los Angeles airship lands on the USS Saratoga in January, 1928.
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Airship, Morvern, Argyll, Scotland,Designed by Roderick James
(1956) … blimps in spaaaace! by James Vaughan
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