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The Lighter Than Air Society
The Lighter-Than-Air Society is your source for information pertaining to blimps, airships, dirigibles, zeppelins, aerostats, and various balloons.
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      • 59th Annual Banquet and Silent Auction Flyer
        • A Treasure of Six Ohio Books from Gray & Co., Publishers.
        • Bed & Breakfast Package in Nelsonville, Ohio
        • Golf package #2
        • Jim Maloney Jr. – Guest Speaker
        • Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships, by Tom D. Crouch
        • The Movie Basket
        • Tom Riley, Recipient of the 2011 ‘P. Rendall Brown’ Lifetime Achievement Award
    • Past Events
      • FAREWELL shown at the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival (March 2011)
  • History
    • This Month in Buoyant Flight History
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – February
        • Hampton Roads, Virginia – Airship ‘Roma’ Disaster, Feb 1922
        • Henri Dupuy de Lôme
        • Medal commemorates first successful balloon flight in Italy
        • Robert Falcon Scott
        • The Remains of the USS Macon
        • USAF Museum Fact Sheet – Roma Airship Tragedy and Liberty Engine
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – January
        • K-class Airships
        • Airship Early Warning Squadron 1 (ZW-1)
        • Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz
        • Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809)
        • Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand – First to cross the Pacific in a hot air balloon
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      • Books from the Collection of Captain Garland Fulton
      • Glossary of Airship Terms
      • How do you build a Blimp? How does it work?
      • The first event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a helium gas-filled balloon competition
    • New Zeppelins for Goodyear
      • ABJ article on Goodyear’s new Zeppelins
      • Goodyear Press Release
      • The Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik Press Release
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Fun Facts

Glossary of Airship Terms

How do you build a blimp? How does it work?

Books from the Collection of Captain Garland Fulton

First event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a helium gas-filled balloon competition

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