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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.

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Airship hangar

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Airship hangars (also known as airship sheds) are large specialized buildings that are used for sheltering airships during construction, maintenance and...

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Hangar

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typical of airship hangar designs of World War I. The site is best known for the Hindenburg disaster, when on May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg...

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Moffett Federal Airfield

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of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy wanted to use the airship hangars at Moffett for blimp operations along with Pacific Coast. However,...

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Airship

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Pilot Licence (Airships) is required. Aviation portal Airborne aircraft carrier Aircruise Airship hangar Barrage balloon Conrad Airship CA 80 (1975–1977)...

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Blimp

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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)...

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CargoLifter

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airship hangar was converted to a 'tropical paradise'-themed indoor holiday resort called Tropical Islands, which opened in 2004. The Skyship airship...

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Cardington Airfield

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airships for the Admiralty. It constructed a 700-foot-long (210 m) Airship hangar (the No. 1 Shed) in 1915 to enable it to build two rigid airships,...

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Tropical Islands Resort

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miles) from the southern boundary of Berlin. It is housed in a former airship hangar (known as the Aerium), the biggest free-standing hall in the world....

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Goodyear Blimp

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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 Airship Hangar, near...

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Mooring mast

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is a structure designed to allow for the docking of an airship outside of an airship hangar or similar structure. More specifically, a mooring mast is...

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Zeppelin

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of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ) who pioneered rigid airship development...

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Goodyear Airdock

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The Goodyear Airdock is a construction and storage airship hangar in Akron, Ohio. At its completion in 1929, it was the largest building in the world without...

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Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar

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The Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar in Suffield, Ohio, is the main hangar used by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for construction and maintenance of...

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Shenandoah Plaza National Historic District

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This tramway facilitated the transportation of an airship on the mooring mast to the airship hangar interior, or to the flight position. During the brief...

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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

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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...

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Lakehurst Maxfield Field

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Geographic, the airship hangar "could house three Woolworth Buildings lying side by side." The base also housed many Navy non-rigid airships, otherwise knowns...

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Rigid airship

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pressure airships) and semi-rigid airships. Rigid airships are often commonly called Zeppelins, though this technically refers only to airships built by...

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LZ 129 Hindenburg

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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...

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Friedrichshafen Airport

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Friedrichshafen in 1915 when the first hangars were constructed. The first scheduled passenger flights with Zeppelin airships started from here, long before they...

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Jinnah International Airport

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[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...

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Batman Begins

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000 L; 14,000 US gal), and built rocks using molds of real caves. An airship hangar at Cardington, Bedfordshire was rented by Warner Bros. during April...

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LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin

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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...

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