In 1900 the fifth dirigible constructed by him crossed the Seine.
For a long time this establishment had been engaged in dirigible construction and repairs.
This old established balloon and dirigible firm first took up aviation as French agents for the Wrights in 1909.
Details of this and later Zeppelins will be found on the German dirigible pages in Part A.
About 1650 he made a dirigible vehicle propelled by man power, but as distinguished from that of his rival, Hautsch, this was a small carriage, being calculated only for one person.
He had built, in 1690, a dirigible vehicle that he used to travel about in on his professional work.
The big dirigible Sun Maid was lying in an open field.
She was now to all intents and purposes a non-dirigible balloon, floating aimlessly in the air.
I often wonder what would happen," said Peter, "if a non-dirigible drifted over a prohibited area.
The mystery deepened when it was further learnt that the motor had been sent first to Lyons, and thence to the well-known electrical and dirigiblemanufacturing firm of Siemens-Schuckert, at Biesdorf, near Berlin.
There were any number of monoplanes, biplanes and dirigible balloons.
When there was no wind, the dirigible could sail quite well, but in a breeze it was hard to make much progress, and to use it in a high wind was entirely out of the question.
Although John Parks was now engrossed in using his glider, he had not given up using his dirigible balloon, and he also gave Andy some lessons in running this.
He dat sorbed in his work he muttah something bout fractions, quations and dirigible expulsions; I hab none ob dose to cook.
The dirigible was shaped like a fat cigar, and had under it a frame-work carrying a thirty horse-power motor and two six-foot suction wheels.
But, just the same, if your motor gives out, a dirigible is a nice thing to float down in.
I've made it a business giving exhibitions at fairs and aero meets with this glider and with a dirigible balloon.
Mr. Parks led Andy into the shed-like structure that formed the back of the tent which sheltered the aeroplane and also a dirigible balloon.
But it was impossible to ward off the fleet little antagonists, once the dirigible was discovered.
Now I’ll start the gas generator, and we’ll become a dirigible balloon for a change.
Sufficient to say that the Comet was a combined aeroplane and dirigible balloon.
He may know how to run an ordinary aeroplane, but when he gets mixed up with our dirigible balloon he’ll come a cropper, sooner or later.
By this time the science of navigating the air was becoming better known, and aeroplanes and dirigible balloons were being perfected.
A motor boat, an auto and an aeroplane and dirigible balloon combined, ought to furnish a variety of travel that would suit almost any one.
It was a combination of an aeroplane and dirigible balloon, and could be used as either or both.
Of the three dirigible stations, only that at Paimboeuf has been in operation for any length of time, and is to be used also for training and experimental work.
No aviation grounds or dirigible sheds are to be allowed within 150 kilometers of the Rhine, or the eastern or southern frontiers, existing installations within these limits to be destroyed.
I will also retain the aeroplane feature, so that the Black Hawk will be a combined biplane and dirigible balloon.
As it was desired to proceed as quietly as possible, the craft was being used as a dirigible balloon, and the propellers were whirled around by means of a small motor, worked by a storage battery.
Tom regretted very much the destruction of the airship, but he at once set to work on another--a monoplane this time, instead of a combined aeroplane and dirigible balloon.
No, but I have had a good deal to do with dirigible balloons.
I think Glennie wrote me you had had some experience with a dirigible balloon?
The Goliath, largest dirigible in the world, is to meet the submarine Neptune at the North pole.
This is a story of the world's greatest dirigibleand of the dangers in the frozen wastes of the Arctic--a combination sure to provide thrills for every reader.
Luther Barr, whom it seemed the boys had shaken off, is still on their trail, in this absorbing book and with a dirigible balloon, essays to beat them out in their search for the Golden Galleon.
You have heard, of course, of the reward offered by the Government to the man who could perfect a dirigible torpedo?
It seemed to them, as they looked, that the whole side of the mountain had burst open and allowed a giant dirigible balloon to float out from its depth.
Gazing away to the north, he saw a dirigible balloon circling in search of a likely lighting place.
The swift-winged aviator is able to manoeuvre at will around and above a huge dirigible and to attack it from any quarter.
The dirigibleballoon has one signal advantage over the aeroplane in the matter of bomb-dropping.
The United States Government has as yet taken no steps worth considering toward the obtainment of Zeppelins, or any other practical dirigible balloon.
Naturally, such bombs are admirably adapted to the destruction of dirigible balloons.
Before the outbreak of the war there were many military engines awaiting a practical trial in actual service, among them the dirigible balloon.
Although the dirigible balloon, a Zeppelin, for example, may hover in a stationary position at will when dropping bombs, still it constitutes such an enormous target that it must fly very high in order to keep out of range of gun-fire.
He designed and made the engine for the dirigibleof Captain Thomas S.
Baldwin; and for the first United States army dirigible in 1905.
Two more crafts arrived, a large triplane, and a dirigible balloon.
Just before the accident to the eccentric man, desiring to give a further test to the planes, the gas had been shut off, making the airship an aeroplane instead of a dirigible balloon.
Suffice it to say that the Red Cloud easily distanced the big dirigiblefrom which much was expected.
It was from an aero club of Blakeville, a city distant about a hundred miles, and stated that a competition for aeroplanes and dirigible balloons was to be held in the course of two weeks.
Or, if you want to enter into a competition to build a dirigible balloon or an aeroplane I'm willing.
In 1900 he made his first flight with a dirigible balloon which carried five men.
The latest and most successful experimenter is Count Zeppelin, a German inventor, whose name has been given to the huge dirigible airships known as Zeppelins.
Of the dirigiblethere was not so much of as a match-stick left.
The early morning following the discovery of the night trip of the dirigible saw the Golden Eagle rising into the chill air and winging her way to the camp.
Their heads made black dots on the surface beneath which the heavy deck structure of the dirigible had vanished.
The boy's observation showed that they were at a point some two hundred miles to the southwest of the spot in which they had left the crippled dirigible and the Viking ship.
You know that the gas in the bag of this dirigibleis heated by electric radiators in order to avoid condensation of the gas?
Even as the onlookers gazed horror-stricken at the sudden blotting out of the dirigible before their eyes the loud roar of the explosion of its superheated gas reached their ears.
A dirigible and no small one," was the reply, "and you?
As he spoke the dirigible was brought to the ground by her operators and as she touched the snow several of her crew gave a shout of surprise at the sight of the pile of treasure already excavated by the boys.
Frank, in reply, bent over the stem-locker of the aeroplane and drew out what Harry instantly recognized as the silk envelope of an experimental dirigible they had built the year before.
You can pitch a camp there and scout about for it in your aeroplane or dirigible or whatever you call it.
I have felt fear while in the air, yes, miserable fear joined to pain; but never in a dirigible balloon.
What does it feel like to sail in a dirigible balloon?
He says: "I have often been asked what present utility is to be expected of the dirigible balloon when it becomes thoroughly practicable.
It has always appeared to the writer that it would be absolutely impossible to make a dirigible balloon that would be of any use, even in a comparatively light wind.
Under these conditions, the driving wheels of the locomotive would not slip, and therefore no waste of power would result, but in the dirigible balloon we have a totally different state of affairs.
It is found that the submerged boat can readily be seen from the dirigible and the aeroplane.
Recently, grappling irons have been devised for use from dirigibles, which are expected to drag out the periscope as the dirigible flies above it.
In dirigible balloons Germany stood first, with 50.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dirigible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: airship; balloon; blimp; directive; ship
