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Also Known As dirigible balloon • dirigible

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Graf Zeppelin
ZMC-2
airship
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aviation: Schwaben
U.S. Navy ZPG-3W airships
Tragic disaster of the Hindenburg airship
Experience the effort to rediscover the zeppelin
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Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1931.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviator
Jerome C. Hunsaker
American aeronautical engineer
Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin
Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin
German official
Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile
Italian explorer
Charles Renard
French military engineer

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