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The Hindenburg – Cast and Crew
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59th Annual Banquet and Silent Auction Flyer – October 22, 2011
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
FAREWELL shown at the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival (March 2011)
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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
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Fatal Flight of Capt. Gray
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin’s Grave site
First Flight of the Hindenburg (LZ-129)
The ZPG-2 Airship ‘Snow Bird’ sets Unrefueled Flight Time and Distance Records
USS Macon christening ceremony – March 11, 1933
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The first event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a helium gas-filled balloon competition
Learn About Stratospheric Balloons
A Typical Stratospheric Balloon Launch
Anatomy of a Stratospheric Balloon
New Zeppelins for Goodyear
ABJ article on Goodyear’s new Zeppelins
COMPARISON SHEET – GZ20A/Goodyear LZN07-101
ELECTRONIC SIGN – THEN AND NOW
Goodyear Press Release
New Goodyear Blimp Photo Gallery
The Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik Press Release
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Hybrid Hopes: An Inside Look At the Airlander 10 Airship
01 Yellow airduct keeps Airlander inflated
By
LighterThanAirSociety
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Published
May 15, 2015
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Full size is
400 × 539
pixels
02 Thrust-vectoring vanes
Source: Hybrid Air Vehicles
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