France (disambiguation) — France is a country in Europe.France may also refer to:* La France , a single released by the Dutch pop group BZN. * La France (rose), an hybrid tea rose developed in 1867 by Jean Baptiste Guillot. Transport * La France (airship), a dirigible… … Wikipedia
Airship — For other uses, see Airship (disambiguation). Dirigible redirects here. For the 1931 film, see Dirigible (film). Not to be confused with Balloon (aircraft) or Blimp. Airship … Wikipedia
Airship hangar — Airships are sheltered in airship hangars during construction and sometimes also for regular operation, particularly at bad weather conditions. The big historic, rigid airships needed always to be based in airship hangars because weather… … 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
Rigid airship — A rigid airship was a type of airship in which the envelope retained its shape by the use of an internal structural framework rather than by being forced into shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope as used in blimps and semi … Wikipedia
Mystery airship — Mystery airships or phantom airships are a class of unidentified flying objects best known from a series of newspaper reports originating in the western United States and spreading east during 1896 and 1897.[1] According to researcher Jerome… … Wikipedia
R31 class airship — NOTOC Infobox Aircraft name=R31 class caption= type=Fleet defense airship national origin=United Kingdom manufacturer=Short Brothers designer= first flight=July avyear|1918 introduced= retired= status= primary user=Royal Navy more users= produced … Wikipedia
America (airship) — The America was a non rigid airship built by Mutin Godard in France in 1906 for Walter Wellman s attempt to reach the North Pole by air. Wellman had been inspired to fly to the pole during a failed overland attempt in 1893. When he saw a French… … Wikipedia
Semi-rigid airship — Semi rigid airships are airships with a partial framework. These often consist of a rigid, occasionally flexible, keel frame along the long axis under the aerodynamic hull envelope. The partial framework can also be inside the hull. Semi rigids… … Wikipedia
Hyperion airship — The Hyperion is a fictional 1907 French airship, featured in the 1974 Walt Disney film “The Island at the Top of the World.” Although the airship only occupies a relatively small amount of the overall length of the film, it plays a prominent role … Wikipedia
