ALTHOUGH it is not likely that dirigible balloons will be of much practical value except for purposes of amusement and to a limited extent for military observations, it seems a pity that the ...

PARIS, Sept. 5. -- A dirigible balloon invented by a Frenchman named Roze was tried to-day. The balloon, which was built at Colombes, a suburb of Paris, consists of two cigar-shaped gas bags ...

Aërial Navigation: a Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aërostats, Aëroplanes and Aëromotors. By Frederick Walker Pp. xvi + 151. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son ...

LONDON, Dec. 20. -- The Daily Chronicle successfully carried out to-day the first trip from London to the Continent in a steerable balloon. For weeks past the large balloon in the grounds of the ...

The loss of "La Patrie," therefore, has brought out another distinct advantage of the flying machine over the dirigible balloon. It is gratifying to note that our War Department expects to ...

Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told a media briefing there was no possibility the dirigible was a weather-monitoring balloon, as has been insisted by Chinese officials. "I can ...

Source: New York Times Scientists worked on improving the spy balloons. One new type used in the war was the "dirigible balloon," designed to get as long as 700 feet long and float up to about ...

The term blimp denotes a type of dirigible without structure. It's just a large, powered, gas-filled, balloon (via How Stuff Works). However, popular culture lumps them all together, and they're ...

A balloon believed to have been sent by North ... managed to use the word “dirigible” in their song “Sons and Daughters”: “We will arise from the bunkers/ By land, by sea, by dirigible ...