1900s Pioneer Dirigible Airship on Display Stand

An early twentieth century pioneer dirigible on a display post. A long, pointed spindle-shaped gas envelope sits above an open lattice frame: a slender keel of triangulated truss work hung from the envelope by a row of vertical struts. A rudder sits at one end and a large two-blade propeller at the other, with small engine and crew blocks along the frame. The post supports the keel from below and stands on a round base with a small raised nameplate bar. In the 1900s, inventors in France, German…

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