The big British dirigibles are of the Zeppelin type.
Because of the weight of this casing rigid dirigibles must be made in large size.
As this book is going to press, we learn of enormous dirigibles about to be built in England for passenger service, which will have half again as great a lifting-power as the largest Zeppelins.
The story of thedirigibles of France and Germany is practically the whole story of the development to a reasonable degree of perfection of the lighter-than-air machine.
Fourteen Zeppelins were in commission, and other large dirigibles of different types brought the number of the craft of this sort available up to forty.
It is probable that the diversion of his interest fromdirigibles to airplanes had most to do with his failure to carry his development further than he did.
The Deutsch prize which stimulated Santos-Dumont to his greatest achievements with dirigibles was a purse of twenty thousand dollars, offered by Mr. Henry Deutsch, a wealthy patron of the art of aviation.
We may pass over hastily some of the later experiments with dirigibles that failed.
In the case of the heavier bombs used by the dirigiblesthis is understandable.
Seaplanes, small dirigibles on the order of the English "blimp" type, and kite balloons have already shown themselves to be more effective in detecting submarines than are submarine chasers or armed liners.
To-day dirigibles make sixty miles an hour, and airplanes not infrequently reach 130 miles.
Two years had elapsed since Santos-Dumont, turning from dirigibles to 'planes, had made a flight of 238 yards.
The Comparative Strength of Belligerents in Dirigiblesat the Opening of the War.
Santos-Dumont differed from all aviators (or pilots of airplanes) and most navigators of dirigibles in always advocating the strategy of staying near the ground.
But being first in the field the Zeppelin came to give its name to all the dirigibles of German make and many of the famous--or infamous--exploits credited to it during the war may in fact have been performed by one of its rivals.
That was indeed the attitude of the business classes at the moment when the inventors of dirigibles were on the very point of conquering the obstacles in the way of making the navigation of air a practical art.
Cost prevented the scheme being carried out, and Giffard went on designing small steam engines until his invention of the steam injector gave him the funds to turn to dirigibles again.
American flight, the main problem in connection with the commercial use of dirigibles is that of mooring in the open.
One of the most successful of French pre-war dirigibles was a Clement Bayard built in 1912.
Major Von Gross, commander of a Balloon Battalion, produced semi-rigid dirigibles from 1907 onward.
Although Germany woke up equally late to the need for home produced aeroplane engines, the experience gained in building engines for dirigibles sufficed for the production of aeroplane power plants.
The cap was swivelled, and, when attached to it, an airship was held nose on to the wind, thus reducing by more than half the dangers attendant on mooring dirigibles in the open.
Airplanes and dirigibles for the location and destruction of submarines.
These are likely to be covered mostly by heavier-than-air craft, although, as in Germany, dirigibleswill have their place.
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.
It is probable that a saving on large dirigibles might result from substituting for the internal combustion method of generating power engines that burn cheap oils.
One of the dirigibles supposed to have attacked Ramsgate early that morning was discovered off Nieuport, Belgium, by a squadron of eight British naval machines which had made a sortie from Dunkirk.
It was reported during November that Great Britain proposed to construct fifty dirigibles within two years to meet the Zeppelin menace, and to construct each year a sufficient number to secure complete mastery of the air for England.
The shrewd step of the French and British therefore resulted in the destruction of three dirigibles in a single month, a much higher average than all the efforts of land guns and aviators had been able to achieve.
Even the small racing dirigibles like Mr. Ridgeway's pair, and the one Van Arsdale had owned, were not common.
In my private business I have used planes, hydroplanes and one or two dirigibles and as they are well known to be used exclusively for passenger and freight service, they have never been interfered with in any way.
The same static that made radar and space scanners all but useless, that limited aircraft to the big dirigibles and weapons to old fashioned rifles and machine guns.
It's a funny world, he thought to himself, where you have to use dirigibles for planetary travel.
We, of course, had no dirigibles worth the name and, perhaps, we were asking pilots to fly machines inferior to the Fokker.
During the battle of Vilvorde, for example, and throughout the attacks on the Antwerp forts, German dirigibles hovered at a safe height over the Belgian positions and directed the fire of the German gunners with remarkable success.
Chris Travers' mind cleared just then with complete comprehension of who had schemed to send both dirigibles down and who had built this secret lair on Azuero Peninsula.
What was this thing that had wiped out the crews of two dirigibles with deadly gas, and wrecked one of them?
France had the largest fleet of dirigiblesamong the Allied nations.
Santos-Dumont placed his last three dirigibles at the disposal of the French military authorities.
His dirigibles increased in size as he installed in each successive model a more powerful and consequently heavier motor, requiring greater lifting power.
But in spite of the success of Renard and his comrade, construction of dirigibles in France paused for sometime, and it was in Germany that the next attempts were made.
In 1898 there appeared in Paris a young Brazilian named Santos-Dumont, who began constructing a series of dirigibles whose success astounded the authorities.
These then are the four general classes of dirigibles which were used in the Great War.
Italy had a few good medium sized vessels, and four largedirigibles were in process of building.
The army had only two large modern dirigiblesand a few very small vessels like the old Nulli Secundus, of little practical value.
Out of this brief story of the development of the early airship models of all the nations, we can, if we look carefully, see certain definite types of dirigibles emerging.
We're almost on the border John and the German aeroplanes and dirigibles are sure to have gathered.
It's likely that most of the planes and dirigibles have gone to the ground, but they'll keep enough above to watch.
But here was something new: two squadrons of dirigibles and planes in company, one on either side of the white posts.
From a great altitude, literally out of the blue of heaven, high over the Gray lines, Marta made out a Brown squadron of dirigibles and planes descending across the track of the Grays.
Over the mountains and over the plain, planes and dirigibles moved in wide circles restively, watching for a signal as hawks watch for prey.
But our own planes and dirigibles bring little news," said Turcas.
For the time being he had no more interest in the knoll than in the wreckage of dirigibles which were down and out of the fight.
So that's what they've had their dirigibles in reserve for--for the last desperate defence!
Two Gray dirigibles with their escort of aeroplanes--in formation like that which Mrs. Galland and Feller had seen race along the frontier--were bearing toward the pass over the pass road.
Aeroplanes and dirigibleshad become a familiar sight.
For the fraction of a second the dirigibles seemed prisms and the planes still-winged dragon-flies hung on a blue wall.
He saw the two remaining dirigibles fighting together against another aeroplane attack.
The attack had accomplished little, for, while some of the Austrian aeroplanes had been sent into the sea, the dirigibles were still intact.
No more dirigibles for me if I live to get out of this one, which I am very much afraid I won't!
When they had found a nice, quiet, safe place to rest and were reviewing this last adventure, Billy said, "No more dirigibles for me!
Back of the mountains, along the Rhone from Dusseldorf to Strasbourg, there are a dozen aero stations, some of them devoted to aeroplanes and dirigibles, others to dirigibles alone.
All the military Zeppelins of Germany are armed and there are a large number of unarmeddirigibles in reserve.
By 1919, dirigibles were of course well known to most of the world.
Since planes and dirigibles were then unknown, there was no one on earth who could have been responsible for them.
There was a depot for dirigibles at Fischamend, about eleven miles southeast of Vienna, but only a few dirigibles were ready for service.
The panic was still more intensified when German aeroplanes and dirigibles began to appear in the sky.
During all this time the German dirigibles and aeroplanes were very active, too, throwing bombs.
Rapidly decreasing what had at first seemed a swift flight, they floated like ghostly dirigibles over the bay, heading for Manhattan.
They saw its two hundred foot mooring mast for dirigiblesrising above the eighty-five stories of the main structure.
The ground crew used the largest of the Japanese dirigibles for their maneuvers.
By the time those reporters get through writing it up, dirigibles are going to be the whole thing.
In the top of the arching roof was tackle to hold the dirigibles during construction.
The walls were covered with pictures of dirigibles and photographs of engines.
The German Government, which had watched the Count's progress with great interest, offered to buy his invention outright if he succeeded in remaining aloft in one of his dirigibles for twenty-four hours.
The British ships remained off the coast for three hours in order to pick up the returning airmen, and during this time they were attacked by dirigibles and submarines, without, however, suffering damage.
Spencer Brothers claim to be the premier balloon manufacturers in the world, and, at the time of writing, eighteen balloons and two dirigibles lie in the works ready for use.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dirigibles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
