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lighter-than-air craft

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Noun1.lighter-than-air craft - aircraft supported by its own buoyancy
aircraft - a vehicle that can fly
airship, dirigible - a steerable self-propelled aircraft
balloon - large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air


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Aeros is flight testing its 40B ``Sky Dragon,'' a 143-foot-long lighter-than-air craft from Site 9, adjacent to Air Force Plant 42.
AIRSHIP FLIGHT TESTS FROM SITE 9 HANGAR by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
I was an assistant editor and wrote many historical articles for the magazine including one on lighter-than-air craft, or dirigibles.
Giving the magazine a name .. by Scott, Michel / Translog
A clear and simple account of the rise and, more or less, demise of lighter-than-air craft - balloons and dirigibles - relates their interesting history from the experiments of the Montgolfier brothers of France in 1783 through Graf Zeppelin's airships and their use in World War I up to the Hindenburg disaster in 1937.
Ships of the Air by Flowers, Ann A. / The Horn Book Magazine
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