Word: semirigid
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...largest semirigid airship in the world, the TC-2, having a gas capacity of 750,000 cubic feet, is being completed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, to serve as an airplane carrier. The Washington Naval Conference placed a limitation on the number and tonnage of ship airplane carriers, but no such restriction was placed on airship carriers-at that time scarcely thought of as practicable. Army experts also claim that the airship carrier will have many advantages over the naval airplane carrier...