semirigid airship

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• Airship Italia — was a semi rigid airship used by Umberto Nobile in his second series of flights around the North Pole. Design and specifications Italia was an N class semirigid airship, designation N4. In design it was almost identical to the N1 Norge but larger …   Wikipedia

• airship — /air ship /, n. a self propelled, lighter than air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible. Cf. blimp. [1810 20, for an earlier sense; AIR1 + SHIP] * * * or dirigible Lighter than air aircraft with steering and… …   Universalium

• airship — Synonyms and related words: Graf Zeppelin, aerostat, ballonet, balloon, basket, blimp, car, catwalk, dirigible, dirigible balloon, envelope, gas chamber, gasbag, gondola, lighter than air craft, mooring harness, rigid airship, sandbag, semirigid… …   Moby Thesaurus

• semirigid — [sem΄irij′id] adj. somewhat or partly rigid; specif., designating an airship having a rigid internal keel but no other supporting framework …   English World dictionary

• airship — /ˈɛəʃɪp / (say airship) noun a self propelled, lighter than air craft with means of controlling the direction of flight, usually classed as either rigid, semirigid, or nonrigid …  

• semirigid — adjective Date: 1906 1. rigid to some degree or in some parts 2. of an airship having a flexible cylindrical gas container with an attached stiffening keel that carries the load …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• semirigid — /sem ee rij id, sem uy /, adj. 1. not fully rigid; partly rigid. 2. Aeron. noting or pertaining to a type of airship whose shape is maintained by means of a rigid keellike structure and by internal gas pressure. [1905 10; SEMI + RIGID] * * * …   Universalium

• airship — A power driven, lighter than air steerable aircraft that consists of a streamlined envelope or hull containing helium gas, with an engine and a gondola suspended from it. The various types of airships are rigid, semirigid, and nonrigid. Today,… …   Aviation dictionary

• semirigid — /sɛmiˈrɪdʒəd/ (say semee rijuhd) adjective designating a type of airship whose shape is maintained by means of a rigid keel like structure and by internal gas pressure …  

• Norge (airship) — Norge. The Norge was a semi rigid Italian built airship that carried out what many consider the first verified overflight of the North Pole on May 12, 1926. It was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America.… …   Wikipedia

• Parseval airships — The name Parseval, from August von Parseval, was used between 1909 and 1919 to denote 22 airships built by the Luft Fahrzeug Gesellschaft (LFG) following his design. Later several airships were built following the Parseval Naatz design.Earlier,… …   Wikipedia