Airship hangars (also known as airship sheds) are large specialized buildings that are used for sheltering airships during construction, maintenance and storage. Rigid airships always needed to be based in airship hangars because weathering was a serious risk.
Airshiphangars (also known as airship sheds) are large specialized buildings that are used for sheltering airships during construction, maintenance and...
typical of airshiphangar designs of World War I. The site is best known for the Hindenburg disaster, when on May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg...
of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy wanted to use the airshiphangars at Moffett for blimp operations along with Pacific Coast. However,...
or non-rigid airship, is an airship (dirigible) without an internal structural framework or a keel. Unlike semi-rigid and rigid airships (e.g. Zeppelins)...
airshiphangar was converted to a 'tropical paradise'-themed indoor holiday resort called Tropical Islands, which opened in 2004. The Skyship airship...
miles) from the southern boundary of Berlin. It is housed in a former airshiphangar (known as the Aerium), the biggest free-standing hall in the world....
semi-rigid airships. Wingfoot One, the first such model in Goodyear's U.S. fleet, was christened on August 23, 2014, at the Wingfoot Lake AirshipHangar, near...
is a structure designed to allow for the docking of an airship outside of an airshiphangar or similar structure. More specifically, a mooring mast is...
of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ) who pioneered rigid airship development...
The Goodyear Airdock is a construction and storage airshiphangar in Akron, Ohio. At its completion in 1929, it was the largest building in the world without...
The Wingfoot Lake AirshipHangar in Suffield, Ohio, is the main hangar used by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for construction and maintenance of...
This tramway facilitated the transportation of an airship on the mooring mast to the airshiphangar interior, or to the flight position. During the brief...
possible airship that could fit into the company's construction hangar, with only 46 cm (18 in) between the top of the finished vessel and the hangar roof...
Geographic, the airshiphangar "could house three Woolworth Buildings lying side by side." The base also housed many Navy non-rigid airships, otherwise knowns...
pressure airships) and semi-rigid airships. Rigid airships are often commonly called Zeppelins, though this technically refers only to airships built by...
passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It...
Friedrichshafen in 1915 when the first hangars were constructed. The first scheduled passenger flights with Zeppelin airships started from here, long before they...
[citation needed] Only three hangars were ever built in the world to dock and hangar Britain's fleet of passenger airships. However, the R101 never arrived...
000 L; 14,000 US gal), and built rocks using molds of real caves. An airshiphangar at Cardington, Bedfordshire was rented by Warner Bros. during April...
the airship was laid and the main rings were fastened onto the roof of the hangar. Although the first few rings were assembled within the hangar, a separate...