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Dirigible travel flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, but "the industry collapsed with the Hindenburg," says John King, a blimp pilot and instructor.
Blimp Enthusiast Is Buoyed by Idea of a Round-the-World Race 2010
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Invisible-Dirigible likened what he saw in the photos to "dog's diarrhoea"; ado16 to "cat sick".
The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week Phil Daoust 2010
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In Dirigible, a very early film by Frank Capra, we watch our brave hero Jack Bradon Jack Holt battle for the future of US Navy rigid airships!
Mini Reviews Too Late Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Sadly, the Boulez Blimp (or, more recently, the DiDonato Dirigible, pictured here) never got off the ground (insert guffaw here).
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I don't have the issue on hand, but I suspect the dirigible is a reference to an early Batman called "The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom" in Detective Comics 33.
Week 46: Bodies With No Surprises Douglas Wolk 2007
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Dirigible balloons have thrown bombs at night upon Antwerp.
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Dirigible (dir'-igihle) -- Steerable or navigable; applied to balloons.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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This year we shall see out in Canada one of the lighter-than-air craft, the Dirigible Rl00 or 8101.
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Dirigible and plane were hidden in an ugly swirl of yellowish smoke, rolling out into a purple cloud that spread into prismatic mist over the descent of cavorting human bodies and broken machinery and twisted braces, flying pieces of tattered or burning cloth.
The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915
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Furthermore an American seaplane, in three stages made the trip from New York to England and then a British Dirigible without making a stop came from England to
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