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Blimp Collection (page 4)

Background imageBlimp Collection: La France Dirigible

La France Dirigible
The first fully controllable air dirigible La France, designed by Captain Charles Renard and Lieutenant Arthur Krebs, at Chalais-Meudon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: R 34 Flight

R 34 Flight
6th July 1919: R 34 Airship (gasbug) slowly descending at Mineola, New York, having made the first leg of its two-way Atlantic flight, July 1919. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Akron Airship

Akron Airship
1933: The worlds largest airship the Akron, used by the US Navy, flying over Philadelphia. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Baldwin Airship

Baldwin Airship
1905: The Baldwin airship, rising from the ground at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: British Fleet

British Fleet
July 1914: An airship, the Gamma, is seen flying over the Royal Yacht as George V reviews the Fleet at Spithead. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Le Baudy Airship

Le Baudy Airship
circa 1911: A group watching Le Baudy airship take off the passengers travelling on an open platform supported by a framework of struts. The airship later crashed

Background imageBlimp Collection: Airship

Airship
12th March 1979: AD 500 airship wheeled out for trials at Cardignton. (Photo by Mike Stephens/Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: The Schwaben

The Schwaben
circa 1925: A German airship, the Schwaben which was destroyed by an explosion. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Airship R33

Airship R33
April 1925: British airship R33 leaving Pulham aerodrome, Norfolk. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Airship Ascends

Airship Ascends
24th September 1852: The ascent of French engineer and inventor Henri Giffauds first steam airship. Collection of the Musee de l Aeromautique (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Venetian Airship

Venetian Airship
circa 1910: Parseval, an Italian airship flying over the Campanile of San Marco, Venice. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Airship

Airship
1917: A British airship attached to its mooring. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: R 101 Moored

R 101 Moored
October 1929: Airship R101 moored to a control tower at Cardington. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: ZR3

ZR3
August 1924: The enormous German built Zeppelin ZR3, re-christened the Los Angeles, in a hangar in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Airship Echelon

Airship Echelon
March 1944: An echelon of airships from the US Naval Airforce glide across the sky over California. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: German Airship

German Airship
circa 1920: German airship Bodensee. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: American Airship

American Airship
October 1923: The ZR-1 renamed Shenandoah. Largest airship of her time and the first to be filled with helium. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Doomed Airship

Doomed Airship
6th May 1937: Aerial view of the German-made dirigible the Hindenburg flying over New York City on its transatlantic voyage from Frankfurt, Germany to Lakehurst naval airfield in New Jersey

Background imageBlimp Collection: Zeppelin Airship

Zeppelin Airship
August 1924: Zeppelin Airship ZR3, later called Los Angeles, Gas bags after 3 hours of inflation. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Experimental Flight

Experimental Flight
2nd April 1925: The R33 airship making an experimental flight from Bedfordshire to Pulham, the first trip of its kind for four years. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Airship C5

Airship C5
circa 1925: American airship C5 leaving Montauk Point, New York for a journey to Newfoundland. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: The Hindenburg

The Hindenburg
1937: The German-built airship Hindenburg (LZ-129) flying over New York City, showing the swastika symbol on its tail. Filled with the flammable gas hydrogen

Background imageBlimp Collection: Ill Fated R-101

Ill Fated R-101
1929: The airship R101 at its mooring mast at Cardington, Bedfordshire. It crashed on its maiden voyage to India while over northern France. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Marine Airship

Marine Airship
20th September 1913: A L2 Marine airship with three gondolas landing at Johannistal, after completing its maiden voyage from Freidrichshafen, Germany in thirteen hours

Background imageBlimp Collection: Airship Factory

Airship Factory
circa 1914: An airship shed at Dusseldorf. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: Zeppelin Ascending

Zeppelin Ascending
circa 1915: A German Zeppelin ascending from its base for a raid on London. During World War I the Germans carried out 12 airship raids on London and many aeroplane attacks, killing some 530 people

Background imageBlimp Collection: Great 20th Century Explorers

Great 20th Century Explorers
The semi-rigid N-class airship Norge (Norwegian for Norway ), which was used by the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Expedition to fly over the North Pole, lands on a snowy field, Teller, Alaska, May 13

Background imageBlimp Collection: Great 20th Century Explorers

Great 20th Century Explorers
The ill-fated semi-rigid N-class airship N1 (aka Italia ) makes a stopover at an airfield before continuing on with Italian general Umberto Nobiles second expedition to overfly the North Pole, Stolp

Background imageBlimp Collection: Electric Airship

Electric Airship
A model of an airship, built by the Tissandier brothers in 1843, on display at the Science Museum, London, 23rd June 1950

Background imageBlimp Collection: Zeppelin I

Zeppelin I
The zeppelin LZ1 lands at Munich after a stormy voyage, circa 1905. (Photo by Haeckel Brothers/Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: St Louis World Fair

St Louis World Fair
The Francois airship about to ascend for a flight at the 1904 World Fair held in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageBlimp Collection: R-101 Over London

R-101 Over London
October 1929: Airship R101 passing over St Pauls Cathedral, London as seen from the new Telegraph building. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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