NS class airship
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The British NS class non-rigid airships were the largest and last in a succession of "blimps" that served with the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I; developed from experiences gained with ea
N.S.8
N.S.8 of the NS class portrayed in 1919.
Model at Chatham Dockyard, Kent
Astra-Torres airship
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The Astra-Torres airships were non-rigid airships built by Société Astra in France between about 1908 and 1922 to a design by the Spaniard Leonardo Torres Quevedo. They had a highly characteristic tri
NS class airship
…not far from the Chatham Dockyard in Kent. Similar to the Coastal and C-Star classes, the "North Seas" employed a tri-lobe envelope based on the Astra-Torres design principles. It incorporated all the improvements that had been previously suggested for those classes – its shape was streamlined throughout, and having…
Astra-Torres AT-1 at an air show in 1911