Word: semirigid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hook. Down from the dirigible extended a rigid trapeze. The plane's pilot successfully maneuvered to engage hook with trapeze so that the plane hung there, was carried along. Three times the plane thus made successful contact. The experiment had been effected previously with smaller, semirigid Navy dirigibles, never with the big Los Angeles. Experts viewed the work as changing big dirigibles from observation vessels solely to motherships for airplanes, weapons of offense...
...Airship, semirigid: Form maintained by rigid or jointed keel, together with internal pressure...
...Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...
Amundsen. Pomp, fanfares, Premier Mussolini, foreign military attaches and "all the Norwegians in Rome" attended the formal translation of the semirigid Italian dirigible Enone into the Norge, in its hangar at the Ciampino Airdrome at Rome. The distinguished company gathered about the air leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft...
What happened to the RS-1, largest semirigid dirigible in the world (TIME, Jan. 18), on her third trial flight...