Rigid Airship Docked at Mooring Mast Diorama

A small diorama of a rigid airship moored to a lattice mast. The ribbed airship has a cruciform tail, an engine pod with propeller and a gondola under the belly. Its nose is attached to the top of a tall lattice mooring mast with a railed platform, while the stern rests on a slender post rising from a small trolley on a short section of rails. Everything sits on a long rectangular base. Mooring masts were developed in the 1910s and 1920s so that big rigid airships could be secured by the nose a…

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