#rigid airship

[stone-cold-groove]

Commemorative envelope. Air Mail by Airship Los Angeles - 1925.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS AKRON (ZRS-4) in flight above Portland, Oregon.

"A cropped version of this photograph was published on Page 4 of the Oregon Journal on May 24, 1932, under the headline 'U. S. S. AKRON, Early Morning Visitor Here, Flying Over Swan Island.' The photograph had the following caption: 'Roy Norr, Journal staff photographer, in an airplane flown by Tex Rankin, caught the giant naval dirigible, U. S. S. AKRON, as she poked her nose over Swan Island airport. The great aircraft gave Portlanders a thrill as she flew directly over the city, but they saw her under body only. AKRON is 785 feet long, weighs 403,000 pounds, and has 6,300,000 cubic feet gas volume. The ship has eight motors, totaling 4480 horsepower, and can make 83.8 miles an hour at top speed.' The photograph accompanied the continuation of a front-page story about the AKRON’s visit."

Photographed on May 24, 1932.

University of Oregon Library: 371N5036

[lonestarflight]

"US Navy USS AKRON blimp" by Richard Derosset.

AKRON was destroyed in a thunderstorm off the coast of New Jersey on the morning of April 4, 1933, killing 73 of the 76 crewmen and passengers.

SDASM Archives: 57737363

[adtothebone]

One year before the humanity went “Oh!”

Also, nazis are bad.

Found in a flat of old newspaper odds & ends won at a recent local auction.

[thestonecuttersguild]

Glad to see the Goodyear Airship back at the show. Oshkosh 2021

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“A new lodger moves in. Airship Akron, world’s largest dirigible, edges over a bit to let the Los Angeles in beside her at the Akron, Ohio, hangar. The Akron has just completed successful test flights.”

- from the Toronto Star. October 26, 1931. Page 21.

[iamwitchboy]

1929, The R101 Rigid Airship. The world's largest flying craft at the time, at 731 ft (223 m) in length. It crashed in France, killing 48 of the 54 people on board, on its maiden overseas voyage in 1930. 

Don't go getting a big head Dragapult, we all just think you’re full of hot air anyway.

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[redarmyscreaming]

USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) fly over USS Lexington (CV-2).