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US Navy Airships, K-ships, WWII - 80-G-55215 (17105932777)
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80-G-55215: K-84 was the first U.S. blimp to operate on anti-submarine patrol from a South American base. The trip from Lakehurst, New Jersey, to Fortaleza was the longest ever made for a craft of this kind. She is shown taking off. Photographed by CPU 6, October 8-14, 1943. (4/28/2015).
Blimp a large aircraft without wings, consisting of a large bag filled with gas that is lighter than air and driven by engines. In the past passengers were carried in a structure hanging below. In 1852, Henri Giffard built the first powered airship, which consisted of a 143-ft (44-m) long, cigar-shaped, gas-filled bag with a propeller, powered by a 3-horsepower (2.2-kW) steam engine. Later, in 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany invented the first rigid airship.
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