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Rigid Airships

Large airships with a rigid internal frame holding the gas cells, built in the 1920s and 1930s for scouting, transatlantic passenger service and prestige, and ended by a run of accidents. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the craft a rigid airship. It excludes non-rigid blimps and modern helium airships. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.

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Rigid Airships
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Zeppelin LZ 1 (Wikipedia)
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The Zeppelin LZ 1 was the first successful experimental rigid airship.
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Wikipedia: Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
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  • Has Member: LZ 2, Lead, rigid airships
    perhaps best known for its leading role in the design and manufacture of rigid airships, commonly referred to as Zeppelins
  • Has Member: LZ 3, Lead, rigid airships
    perhaps best known for its leading role in the design and manufacture of rigid airships, commonly referred to as Zeppelins
  • Has Member: LZ 4, Lead, rigid airships
    perhaps best known for its leading role in the design and manufacture of rigid airships, commonly referred to as Zeppelins
  • Has Member: LZ 38, Lead, rigid airships
    perhaps best known for its leading role in the design and manufacture of rigid airships, commonly referred to as Zeppelins
  • Has Member: LZ 120 Bodensee, Lead, rigid airships
    perhaps best known for its leading role in the design and manufacture of rigid airships, commonly referred to as Zeppelins
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LZ 10 Schwaben (Wikipedia)
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was a German rigid airship built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in 1911
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LZ 13 Hansa (Wikipedia)
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was a German civilian rigid airship first flown in 1912
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Zeppelin LZ 14 (Wikipedia)
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was a rigid airship built for the Kaiserliche Marine
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LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin, Lead, airship kind
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the last of the German rigid airships built by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau
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LZ 129 Hindenburg
Has Member: Hindenburg (Airship), Lead sentence
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LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.
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USS Macon (ZRS-5), Wikipedia
Has Member: USS Macon (Airship), Lead sentence
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USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", carrying up to five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk parasite biplanes for scouting or two-seat Fleet N2Y-1s for training.
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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) - Wikipedia
Has Member: USS Los Angeles (Airship), Lead sentence
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USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, which was built in 1923-1924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as war reparations.
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USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), Wikipedia
Has Member: USS Shenandoah (Airship), Lead sentence
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USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships.
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USS Akron, Wikipedia
Has Member: USS Akron (Airship), Lead sentence
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USS Akron (hull number ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S.
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Wikipedia: LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937.
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R101 (Wikipedia)
Has Member: R101 (Airship), Lead sentence
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R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire.
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