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Also Known As dirigible • dirigible balloon

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The Graf Zeppelin airship in flight, viewed from the side, showing its elongated body, tail fins, and gondola beneath.
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A colorful Ameriquest Soaring Dream airship with bold geometric patterns flies above Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, with the baseball field and stands visible below.
Illustrated postcard showing Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship flying around the Eiffel Tower above Paris, with text reading The Santos Dumont Air-Ship rounding the Eiffel Tower, on October 19th 1901.
The Zeppelin airship Schwaben hovers low above an open field near a crowd of people preparing for its landing at Potsdam.
U.S. Navy ZPG-3W airships
Tragic disaster of the Hindenburg airship
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Key People

Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1931.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviator
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Jerome C. Hunsaker
American aeronautical engineer
Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin
Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin
German military official
Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile
Italian explorer
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Charles Renard
French military engineer

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