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Alternative options have always existed—imperial Germany used Zeppelin airships in World War I to subdue the city of London, and Nazi Germany developed V-1 cruise missiles and V-2 ballistic missiles in World War II.
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Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025
By the 1890s, engineers in France had built an electrolysis plant to produce hydrogen for military airships.
—science.org, 23 Jan. 2025
The airship contains 14 non-pressurized helium cells, equipped with advanced sensor systems.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025
The storm punctured the airship and caused a gas leak.
—Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
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Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025
By the 1890s, engineers in France had built an electrolysis plant to produce hydrogen for military airships.
—science.org, 23 Jan. 2025
The airship contains 14 non-pressurized helium cells, equipped with advanced sensor systems.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025
The storm punctured the airship and caused a gas leak.
—Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airship
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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of more than 900 African-American military pilots and airmen who flew combat aircraft in World War II.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 2025
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Zelenskyy denied Russian claims of having shot down any of the aircraft.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Reds seemed to right the ship with four wins and a draw in their next five matches, but even those were questionable.—
Brett Koremenos,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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The assessments look into vessel traffic, transit speeds, loading characteristics and more, especially as ships have gotten larger over the decades.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2025
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In this case, preparing for war meant shipping designs, sample parts, and airplane prototypes to CanCar’s factory at Fort William late in 1938.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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In 1952, a case known as United States v. Reynolds went before the Supreme Court, in which the widows of three civilian crew members who were killed in a U.S. military airplane crash sued the government to obtain the accident investigation report.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2025
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The helicopter involved in the incident was not called specifically to the area to follow the suspect’s car, Ewing said, but happened to be close by when KCPD officers put out an alert.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
19 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, the life flight helicopter was blown off the roof and surrounding debris entered the radiators hospital’s generators, leaving the building without electricity, according to a presentation from Johnson County Emergency Management.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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Charging a power bank on the plane by plugging it into the seat’s USB outlet is also prohibited, according to the new regulations.—
Kathleen Magramo,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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The plane landed in the City by the Bay at 5:05 p.m. The plane was delayed more than 3 hours before taking off.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Despite the innovations in technology and design, hypersonic applications for commercial aircraft are in their infancy, with both engines and airframes remaining years away from implementation in that category.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
22 Mar. 2025
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The two argued that advances in composite airframe construction would allow lighter supersonic aircraft that would generate less of a boom than the pioneering Concorde airliner, recommending that the FAA rewrite those rules to restrict sound, not speed.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
10 Feb. 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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As the name states, the 125,000-square-foot building is packed full of trucks and tractors, but classic cars, vintage automotive signs, and big rigs are also on display.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2025
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Other options, including gravity tractors, ion beams and nuclear devices, may provide better defenses and should be the subject of serious study.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Airship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airship. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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