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Noun(1) (2) a steerable self-propelled airship

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(1) It was here he assembled his first airship in 1900.(2) The airship slowly lifted off the ground just before they arrived.(3) The Zeppelin airship is back, almost 70 years after it went down in a blaze in an accident in Germany.(4) The airship pitched suddenly diving forward and then back as the aircraft shuddered in a sick whine.(5) This is the first airship of an extensive project to develop small helium airships (one- and two-person).(6) They have built gondolas for airships , flight simulators and floating offices, but Jim's boat posed a real challenge.(7) Yet commanders quickly grasped the ability to use aircraft or airships to threaten deep behind the front line .(8) Airships were also constructed, especially by Germany, which used Zeppelin airships for bombing attacks against civilian targets.(9) Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house.(10) Sixty years ago, he was a 17-year-old boy on his way to Bedford to learn all there was about aeroplanes and airships .(11) Since the demise of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg, helium was in big demand as the buoyant gas for airships .(12) From 1915 on, the first strategic bombing offensive was conducted by Germany against Britain, using airships and later large aircraft carrying bombs of up to 2,200 pounds.(13) Soon after that, in 1926, he resigned from the Navy, but he retained his enthusiasm for airships .(14) In 1907 he left the company and devoted his efforts to the design of large engines for airships .(15) Submarines were attacked by aircraft, airships , mines, Naval vessels (including submarines) and merchant ships.(16) It then possessed 39 aircraft, 52 seaplanes, and 7 airships .