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  2. SS class airship - Wikipedia

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    Two private firms, Armstrong Whitworth and Airships Ltd., were also invited to submit designs and consequently three versions of the SS class blimp were produced: the SS "B.E.2c", the SS "Armstrong Whitworth" and the SS "Maurice Farman" (thus named because the car designed by Airships Ltd. resembled a Farman aeroplane body). [8]

  3. List of British airships - Wikipedia

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    The first British airship; Spencer's Airship No. 1 in the summer of 1902. Airship development in the United Kingdom lagged behind that of Germany and France. The first British designed and built airship was constructed by Stanley Spencer, and on 22 September 1902 was flown 30 miles (48 km) from Crystal Palace, London to Ruislip, carrying an advertisement for baby food.

  4. 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]

  5. Giffard dirigible - Wikipedia

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    The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, it was the first powered and steerable airship to fly. The craft featured an elongated hydrogen -filled envelope that tapered to a point at each end.

  6. Soviet and Russian airships - Wikipedia

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    The Imperial Russian Air Service did not come into being until 1912, and though small fixed-wings airplanes were used in World War I, they were limited in their capabilities. Only after the October Revolution in the 1920s did airship enthusiasts begin constructing small non-rigid ships. The first Soviet airship to ever take flight was the ...

  7. K-class blimp - Wikipedia

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    The K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy.These blimps were powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engines, each mounted on twin-strut outriggers, one per side of the control car that hung under the envelope.

  8. List of Schütte-Lanz airships - Wikipedia

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    The Schütte-Lanz airship SL.I was the first of 20 airships built by the company. Construction was carried out in a large hangar at Rheinau near Mannheim.The ship was powered by four 125 hp (127 PS; 93 kW) Daimler-Benz engines installed in two ventral gondolas.

  9. Schütte-Lanz SL 11 - Wikipedia

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    British propaganda postcard entitled "The End of the 'Baby-Killer'" The SL 11 was based at Spich and commanded by Hauptmann Wilhelm Schramm.In the early hours of 3 September 1916, after jettisoning bombs over Essendon, Hertfordshire, destroying several houses, damaging a church, and killing two sisters aged 26 and 12, [1] [2] it was then shot down over nearby Cuffley by Lt. William Leefe ...