Category Archives: Dirigibles

  1. Arctic Airships Part 3: Amundsen vs Nobile

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    06/08/2013 by noonobservation

    The final part of my epic trilogy of Arctic Airship posts has taken a little longer than I hoped due …
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  2. Arctic Airships Part 2: The America

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    19/06/2013 by noonobservation

    My first two blog posts about airships both came to rather tragic conclusions, so I’m relieved to say that this …
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  3. Arctic Airships Part 1: The Eagle

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    07/06/2013 by noonobservation

    In the two decades before Flanders became the fashionable place to kill and be killed, many plucky young fellows thought …
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  4. Alberto Santos-Dumont, Dirigibles and Dinosaurs

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    25/04/2013 by noonobservation

    I have recently become enamoured of the dirigible – that evolutionary dinosaur of aviation. Like the diplodocus, dirigibles were huge, slow, difficult to …
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