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May 6th, 1937: the end of the age of the passenger airship.
Another image from John Coulthart; in a probably-doctored image,…
Another image from John Coulthart; in a probably-doctored image, the American airship ZR-1, the USS Shenandoah, floats over the set of the film Yolanda in 1923. Image from Photoplay magazine.
November 20th, 1903; the dirigible “Le Jaune” passes…
collective-history: First World War, aerial war. A French…
First World War, aerial war. A French zeppelin/airship under attack from a German plane. 1915.
“United Airline” airship of the future, from Life,…
“United Airline” airship of the future, from Life, Jan. 1910.
Image from the NYPL Archive, via Ptak.
“Soviet airships must fly and will fly over the Soviet…
“Soviet airships must fly and will fly over the Soviet country!
Let us create a powerful airship-building industry”
Design by Nikolai Dolgorukov, 1932.
zengiraffe: 1919 … off for Europe!
The Brazilian Priests’s Flying Ship An engraving from the…
The Brazilian Priests’s Flying Ship
An engraving from the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. I, 1786.
The ship was covered with a net of “iron wire, in the form of a net, on which are fastened a good number of amber beads, which by secret operation, will help keep the ship aloft.”
The University of Otago’s website has a number of other interesting illustrations and excerpts from the Gentleman’s Magazine.