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  • But the problem of the dirigibility of a boat, or of a balloon, is simplicity itself compared with the amazing complexity of the problems involved in producing a dirigible civilization.

    By the Christmas Fire Samuel McChord Crothers

  • The craft proved to be perfectly manageable in the air, and answered her helm, thus complying with the terms of dirigibility.

    Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

  • Usurpation is a crime to which men are tempted by human dirigibility.

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • The advantages of your system have given your ship the greatest attainable speed and dirigibility, and the important results you have obtained have produced an epoch-making step forward in the construction of airships and leave laid down a valuable basis for future experiments. "

    Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

  • "Converter efficiency 100, projector reactivity 100, dirigibility 100, on each of numbers one to thirty-two, inclusive, of upper band; and numbers one to thirty-two, inclusive, of lower band.

    Spacehounds of IPC 1927

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