I thoroughly enjoy this, and it isn't often I get a chance for a moonlight airship ride.
Then, too, the noise of an airship proclaims its approach to the enemy, sometimes long before it can be seen.
Though the airship sailed only a few hundred feet above their heads, not a person was aware of it, since the craft's lights were put out for this test.
Only, from what I laser overheard, I knew they mistook me for you and that they were bitterly disappointed in not getting plans of some new airship you were working on.
I'm going to revolve the propellers of my new airshipin compressed air, so dense that they will not have to have a speed of more than seven hundred revolutions a minute.
And it's the resistance of the air to the blades of an airship propeller that sends the craft along, isn't it?
It may be all right for you, but I've never been up in this kind of airship before, and I want to know if it's safe for me.
Aboard his airship there were several small but powerful portable electric lights, and after securing one of these Tom and Mr. Damon started for the spot whence the call for help had come.
Was I to think that they emanated from some airship hovering in the sky, beyond that cloud-belt?
The French have a small airship very much like the Blimp which they use for scout duty.
The Lebaudy brothers offered their airship to the French government, and after it had accomplished a series of tests to prove its value as an instrument of war, it was accepted, and became a model for laterairship construction.
Zeppelin's first airshiphad two cars, with a motor in each, giving about 30 horsepower.
For of course a flabby, partially filled envelope would flop from side to side, destroying the balance of the airshipand checking its speed.
France had prided herself on her versatility inairship design.
His formidable fleet of super-Zeppelins had not their match in the world, and his program of airship construction was being pushed forward with the utmost speed and efficiency.
Great Britain was far worse off than France, for her airshipfleet practically did not exist.
A voyage across the Atlantic in such an airship would be far shorter, safer and pleasanter than in the finest of the ocean vessels.
The car of this Lebaudy airship was boat-shaped with a flat bottom.
Another French airship of non-rigid design is the Clement-Bayard.
Then, I need only give the order to these, my faithful subjects, and the whole of your valuable cargo will be strewn on the sands, and your airship will be alight.
And as the cables are slipped from the mooring tower, the light gangway is drawn back, the crowd down below cheer, and the giant airship backs out, carried by the force of the wind alone till she is well clear of the station.
The airship is ready now, sir," said the captain, making a final appeal for the life of the maharajah.
How he came aboard, and hid himself amongst the mail-bags, until the airship had sailed a thousand miles over land and sea, still remains a mystery.
He began to fear that they would not wait for the pre-arranged signal, and he urged the Arab sheik to restrain them, and to repeat the orders that the occupants of the airship must not be touched.
The bandit was aware of all that, and I understand that every camera was removed from the airship before he let us go.
Why, I forgot to tell you in the bewilderment and excitement of the last hour, that Captain Watson here managed to secure three snapshots of the raider in mid-air, whilst his airship was being attacked.
The next instant three red balls of fire fell from the airship earthwards in rapid succession, and within a couple of minutes a faint gleam of greenish light fell like an arc in the north-western sky.
The great white sheik will bring down the airship on this very spot.
And when the time had arrived for the airship to sail, watching his opportunity the little fellow had smuggled himself on board, and here he was, having now almost sailed around the world, crossing the Arabian desert on the homeward voyage.
Every ounce of gold on the airship must be confiscated," exclaimed the king of robbers as he uplifted his hands in pious horror.
This mammoth airship was one of the finest vessels which sailed regularly from London, east and west, girdling the world, and linking up the British Empire along the All-Red Route.
Bewildered, but yet relieved by these words, they quickly ascertained that the prostrate man was not actually dead, and they hurriedly placed him aboard the airship and administered emetics.
In a little while it even became an open question whether Gadget belonged to theairship or the airship belonged to Gadget.
It's about the balloon airship Rose made and the dumbwaiter Margy had a ride in.
Barton, of Beckenham, who shortly completed an airship model carrying aeroplanes and operated by clockwork.
Eventually, having formed a company with a large capital, he was enabled to construct an airship which in size has been compared to a British man-of-war.
Another airship had appeared in the distant skies and it now approached with marvelous rapidity.
The airship rose some thirty feet out of reach, and Robur recommenced: "Citizens of the United States, the conquest of the air is made; but it shall not be given into your hands until the proper time.
The great wings shot out, and the airship rose as it had risen above the falls of Niagara.
Robur and his men had escaped death in the Pacific; and, burning for revenge, they had constructed a second airship in their secret Island X.
In its flight during the night the airship had covered the distance between Lake Erie and North Carolina.
In Lunéville fifteen civilians were killed by airship bombs two days earlier; shortly afterwards followed the attack by airship on civilians in Antwerp.
Last night a hostile airship was observed flying from Kerprich to Andernach.
According to this witness it was already daylight when the airship appeared, and the effect of the bombs was truly awful.
The airship took a conspicuous part in the attack on Liége, and was able to intervene in a markedly successful manner.
Of course, it was not exactly an airship of any kind.
Dot, unable long to keep any exciting happening or interest to herself, was disseminating the news of the proposed "airship line" throughout the Corner House household.
So, still feeling the necessity for discussing the airship matter with somebody, Dot went upstairs to Aunt Sarah's room.
These perfectly good objections to the practicability of airship flying impressed the smallest Corner House girl deeply.
Never look ahead to see what they'd do with an airship if somebody gave 'em one.
On this occasion, before she could even broach the airship matter, Aunt Sarah seized upon a fault that Dot had not even noticed before.
Why, Tess Kenway, an airship would cost 'most a million dollars!
Why," said Tess, reprovingly, "I thought we were talking about my airship line.
The wire--or the airship traveling back and forth.
I have seen since that time the charts carried by aviators and airship crews, in which every hedge, every ditch, every small detail of the landscape is carefully marked.
There are plenty of German aëroplanes at that British airship station, but few wind shields.
And so the mystery of the phantom airship and the missing jewels is all cleared up," said Peggy to Jess one day a short time after the events just described had transpired.
From what you have told me his little game was to bluff you into thinking he had a fine airship that could beat yours, and in that way induce you to sell out to him.
Lucifer comes down in his airshipto collect the doctors, whose bodies he drops out, a little later on.
As the airship dives into the ball and the cross of Saint Paul's Cathedral, its passengers naturally find themselves taking a deep interest in the cross, considered as symbol and anchor.
Major Von Parseval's first airship was selected, and since that time the above company has confined itself to improving this type, and to making exhaustive and costly researches, all of which have been embodied in successive ships.
When the "Motorluftschiff Studien Gesellschaft" was formed at the instigation of the German Emperor, a committee was formed to acquire an experimental airship of the most promising type.
A single aeroplane should be able to disable or destroy without very great difficulty the finest dirigible yet built (supposing it able to find the airship in the vastness of the air).
As he said this he gave a signal, and soon the strangely shaped airship came in sight, to the delight of all who saw it.
Airship motors, as a rule, must operate constantly at high speeds in order to obtain a maximum power delivery with a minimum piston displacement.
It is said that even if half these chambers were destroyed the airship would still float and answer its helm.
When Count Zeppelin, about the year 1899, invented a great airship which could travel for hundreds of miles and carry some thirty or forty men, the Kaiser saw at once that it might become a great weapon of war.
Aeroplanes and a naval airship hovered above the same waters, keeping a bright lookout for enemy craft.
He felt that no other airship then in existence would have been able to keep up the fight.
Illustration: (Frontispiece) Jack experienced an odd thrill as he prepared to send the first spoken word ever exchanged between an airship and land--Page 71.
Jack experienced an odd thrill as he prepared to send the first spoken word ever exchanged between an airship in motion and a station on land.
I reckon he'll be right smart tickled to death when he hears I got a whole airship fer him ter 'rest.
And then, would you believe me, that queer airship did go in the air a little distance because the wind got under the umbrellas and lifted them up.
Then the whole airship began falling into the pond.
Jumpo had placed the airship on a smooth place where the roller skate wheels could go around very easily.
The airship began to shiver and to shake, and then all of a sudden it began rolling over the ground.
These little monkeys were the cutest and most cunning chaps you would want to see, even if you went in an airship to the circus.
To this end the recently equipped airship was stocked with food and water, and shortly before noon Roy finished the final tuning up of the engine.
There won't be any airshiprace for me if you are out of it, will there?
He seemed to be putting the stolen airship idea to marked advantage.
Got a hint from some airship fellows that you was somewhere around these diggings.
You are to go straight on to Montrose, win that airship race, and when you have got that off your mind we will have a talk together.
Andy had told Chase something about his circumstances, and now told him more, mentioning theairship race.
The aeronaut had told the lawyer considerable about Andy and the approaching airship race, and as they rolled along Mr. Webb showed a great deal of interest in Andy's aviation ambitions and asked a great many questions.
There was no doubt that the large tent enclosed the airship which Duske and his crowd intended to enter for the race.
I've had a bad fall, arm broken in two places, and we can't make theairship race.
I'm known all over the country as the Airship King.
I love the airship business, Mr. Parks, but I want to learn every branch of the science that covers it.
It must be Mr. Morse, the airship inventor," thought Andy.
The design of this apparatus is such that the landing of anairship is as easy in a wind as in complete calm.
In the case of an airship the only result of the failure of any of the motors is reduction of speed.
Moreover, a speed of four-fifths of the maximum can still be maintained with half the motors of an airship out of action, so that there is no possibility of a forced descent owing to engine breakdown.
These enable the airship to alight either on land or on the sea's surface.
Having made clear that the airship is the only means of transatlantic flight on a paying basis, the next point to be considered is the type of dirigible necessary.
For longer distances theairship has no competitor.
To meet the requirements of various purposes for which airships may be utilized, dirigibles of four kinds are projected: First, the airship of moderate size and high speed for carrying express, mails and passengers.
In this connection the two voyages across the Atlantic of the British government airship R-34, not long after Alcock and I had returned to London, was a big step towards the age of regular air service between Britain and America.
On long flights the greatest problems are maintenance of the airship at a constant height, and avoidance of the loss of gas consequent on expansion when the ship rises as it loses weight by the consumption of fuel.
The "Dead Reckoning" position of an aeroplane or airship at any time is calculated from its known speed and direction over the surface of the earth or ocean, and its known course as indicated by the magnetic or gyroscopic compass.
In years to come, with the development of airship transport to the most distant centers of the world, it is conceivable that no important city will be further from London than ten days' journey.
Either the wrecked airship had gone to the bottom, or else, water having reached her storage batteries, she could no longer send out word.
Just got word that a wrecked airshipis floating about on the sea," flashed back Jack, and gave the latitude and longitude.
The airship Adventurer, from New Orleans to Havana.
But the current from the drifting airship was so weak that I cannot be absolutely certain as to their accuracy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
