Airship hangar
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Airship hangars are large specialized buildings that are used for sheltering airships during construction, maintenance and storage. Rigid airships always needed to be based in airship hangars because
Hangar Y, Chalais-Meudon near Paris, France 2002
Zeppelin Hangar, Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport, Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hangars of the former Royal Airship Works at Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, 2013
The reconstructed Airship Hangar at Farnborough
Rigid airship
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A rigid airship is a type of airship in which the envelope is supported by an internal framework rather than by being kept in shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope, as in blimps
Airship hangar
…hangars (also known as airship sheds) are large specialized buildings that are used for sheltering airships during construction, maintenance and storage. Rigid airships always needed to be based in airship hangars because weathering was a serious risk. The first real airship hangar was built as Hangar "Y" at Chalais-Meudon…
Construction of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 1923, showing the framework of a rigid airship
LZ 1, the first successful rigid airship
The extended Spiess airship in 1913
The British R34 in Long Island during the first ever return crossing of the Atlantic in July 1919