Airships

Too late the Chinese government apprehended the meaning of the colossal preparations, the marshalling of the world-hosts, the flights of the tin airships, and the rain of the tubes of glass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is perhaps a bit of an odd book for a first choice since it is entirely lacking in airships and heavier on horror then adventure but it is rife with clockwork automatons and steam powered weaponry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In its 200 action packed pages it manages to cram in airships, pirates, Gatling guns, and an improbable super weapon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“In addition to his pioneering work in airships, Santos Dumont made the first European* public flight of an airplane on October 23, 1906.” en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos_Dumont ❋ Unknown (2009)

An excellent book on the subject of such airships is Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. jerry Says: ❋ Unknown (2007)

I tell you that so that you will feel, when you come out in airships in future, quite satisfied that we will take you to your right destination and set you down at the right spot. ❋ Unknown (1930)

Chinese government apprehended the meaning of the colossal preparations, the marshalling of the world-hosts, the flights of the tin airships, and the rain of the tubes of glass. ❋ Unknown (1914)

And people were reporting what they called airships, but a lot of times it was just a light in the sky, "Eberhart explains. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An AWOL spoiled rich brat and his WWII coward Pappy who bailed out of his plane leaving some of his flight crew still on board the burning plane--a captain of an airplane is the same as a captain of a ship--airplanes were once called "airships"--he must be the last off his sinking vessel. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

I arrived back and dumped my stuff, headed down to the bar to finish my experience of Warsaw with a Żywiec, a few fags and a few chapters of Joyce's THE LIMITS OF ENCHANTMENT, a good way to unwind after it all, for all the lack of exploding airships, that is. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. ❋ Unknown (2002)

While ordnance matters, big guns and high explosives were his hobby, nevertheless the airships were a source of wonder to him. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)

But it seemed to him as if the notion of airships did carry some faint association to his mind, although far less distinct than that of motor-cars and even trains. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

No such policy was possible in the manufacture of airships, which is essentially a ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

He had also, of course, read the aërial experiments which had been made by inventors of what the newspapers called airships, and which he, with his hard naval common-sense, called gas-bags with motor engines slung under them. ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

"Because our airships are a considerable advancement in airship technology from anything that has ever existed we felt we needed a top flight chief test pilot that had the experience and skills to guide these ships to market," explains E-Green Technologies Chairman and CEO, ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the same time, the very visible presence of the airships would keep potential attackers on their guard, Carter said, calling the airships a more affordable way to maintain surveillance than more-expensive unmanned airplanes, which are also being deployed in Afghanistan in large numbers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the same time, the very visible presence of the airships would keep potential attackers on their guard, Carter said, calling the airships a more affordable way to maintain surveillance than more expensive unmanned airplanes, which are also being deployed in Afghanistan in large numbers. ❋ Unknown (2010)