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lighter-than-air craft |
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lighter-than-air craft [′līd·ərthən ¦er ‚kraft] (aerospace engineering) An aircraft, such as a dirigible, that weighs less than the air it displaces. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Aeros is flight testing its 40B ``Sky Dragon,'' a 143-foot-long lighter-than-air craft from Site 9, adjacent to Air Force Plant 42. I was an assistant editor and wrote many historical articles for the magazine including one on lighter-than-air craft, or dirigibles. A clear and simple account of the rise and, more or less, demise of lighter-than-air craft - balloons and dirigibles - relates their interesting history from the experiments of the Montgolfier brothers of France in 1783 through Graf Zeppelin's airships and their use in World War I up to the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. |
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