zeppelins in English

noun
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a large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century, long and cylindrical in shape and with a rigid framework. Zeppelins were used during World War I for reconnaissance and bombing, and after the war as passenger transports until the 1930s.
Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house.

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1. The Explanation: Both Blimps and zeppelins work …

2. Rubber for bicycle tires, rubber for automobile tires, rubber for zeppelins.

3. The history and technology of Airships, blimps, and zeppelins.

4. January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.

5. The Zeppelins used a different gas mixture of propylene, methane, butane, acetylene (ethyne), butylene and hydrogen.

6. The Germans maintained a fleet of Zeppelins that they used for aerial reconnaissance and occasional bombing raids.

7. During World War I the Germans used their rigid airships, known as zeppelins, as strategic Bombers in

8. Everyone is monitoring everything: telephones, airlines, cameras on the roads, cameras in public places, zeppelins in the sky.

9. It was intended from the outset that all of the Graf Zeppelins' aircraft would normally launch via catapult.

10. The Airship's highly flammable hydrogen lifting gas meant several Zeppelins were shot down in flames by increasingly accurate defensive fire

11. The plan did not come to fruition, primarily because the German Navy relied on zeppelins for aerial reconnaissance, not seaplanes.

12. The planned raid on Sunderland intended to use Zeppelins to watch out for the British fleet approaching from the north, which might otherwise surprise the raiders.