rigid airship
zeppelin, airship that has an internal metal frame to support the inflatable body | ||||
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Rigid airship
A rigid airship was a type of airship in which the envelope retained its shape by the use of an internal structural framework rather than by being forced into shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope as used in blimps and semi-rigid airships.
Rigid airships were produced and relatively successfully employed from the beginning of the 1900s to the end of the 1930s, but their heyday ended when the Hindenburg caught fire on May 6, 1937.
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