Airships
Shortly after the first balloon flights in the late 1700s, people began working on ways to steer the new invention. Some suggested sails, others advocated flappers, while still others wanted ...
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Friedrichshafen, Germany (dpa) - A memorial service was held in
southern Germany on Sunday to mark the 70th anniversary of the
Hindenburg airship crash which killed 36 peopl...
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Bremerhaven, Germany (dpa) - German scientists are to fly an
airship from Norway across the North Pole to Canada to carry out the
first-ever all-the-way-across survey of the...
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Cruises over Tokyo aboard a Zeppelin NT, the world's largest
airship and one of only three such airships in the world, will begin
Friday through Jan. 5, primarily on weekends, including a nig...
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Cruises over Tokyo aboard a Zeppelin NT, the world's largest
airship and one of only three such airships in the world, will begin
Friday through Jan. 5, primarily...
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Nippon Paper to wholly own Mishima Paper
TOKYO - Nippon Paper Group Inc. is in final talks to wholly own
Mishima Paper Co. and integrate special paper operations within the
grou...
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At 87, Robert Buchanan says he sometimes has trouble remembering what he did 10 minutes ago. But he can recall in vivid detail the day 70 years ago when he watched the luxurious airship Hindenburg ...
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At 87, Robert Buchanan says he sometimes has trouble remembering what he did 10 minutes ago. But he can recall in vivid detail the day 70 years ago when he watched the luxurious airship Hindenburg ...
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Paul "Ed" Yost, considered the father of modern hot-air ballooning for a successful three-mile trip on a propane-powered balloon, has died. He was 87.Yost died Sunday at his home in New Mexico, acc...
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San Francisco (dpa) - Peggy Fossett, the wife of missing
adventurer Steve Fossett, has gone to court to have him declared
legally dead.
She filed a petition i...
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