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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Goodyear "America" blimp lands after final ground check in a field near Wingfoot Lake. The blimp is tied to portable landing mast with generator, machine s... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The Graf Zeppelin, a German-made dirigible in a hangar almost ready for its maiden voyage. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The frame of the Graf Zeppelin being built, surrounded by scaffolding in a hangar in Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The Graf Zeppelin airship, 776 feet long, could travel at a speed of up to 80 miles per hour, powered by five 550 horse-power Maybach engines. Hydrogen ga... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A balloon about to ascend in Minneapolis. John Schwister, who later built the Minnesota-Badger airplane, is in the front of the gondola, with his back to t... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | The first dirigible purchased by the U.S. Army and its builder, Thomas A. Baldwin. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The gondola crew of a World War I observation balloon that is about to ascend. Observation balloons were positioned near the front so that men in the gondo... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A passenger cabin on the Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127), a luxurious German-built airship. The Graf Zeppelin was taken out of service about a month after the Hinde... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | The blimp of the Goodyear Tire Company hovers above the carnival area of the Wisconsin State Fair, tethered to the ground with ropes. The fairgoers, howev... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | People walk in and out of the International McCormick-Deering tent at the Illinois State Fair. The Goodyear blimp is up in the sky just above the tent. |
| Date: | 10 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View from below of blimp, USS "Akron" during a test flight that took it over Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A balloon sits in a field at the National Air Show, held at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport. Two people stand near an automobile on the left, and on the right nea... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people outside of the Wisconsin At Work Building at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition at the State Fair Park. A blimp emblazoned with the word... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing near a hot air balloon. Hot air balloons were mostly used as spotters for the enemy. Captioned: "The basket in which the observer sits while '... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | An airship flying over the celebration of the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" monument in Berlin. |
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