air ship

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Fabric bags, known as 'ballonets', are therefore fitted inside the envelope, and as the air-ship descends air is forced into these bags, which supplies the lost pressure and maintains the shape of the envelope.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

Perhaps a feasible means of propelling such an air-ship would be by a kind of trolley system where the rod would hang down from the car to the stretched wire, instead of extending upward.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various

The chief function of the keel is to distribute the load of the various weights to the transverse frames of the air-ship.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

This is necessary, as the fabric of the gas-bags of a rigid air-ship is lighter and contains less rubber than the envelope of a non-rigid.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

The balloon part of this air-ship was 112-1/2 feet long and 19-1/2 feet in diameter, holding about 6400 cubic feet of gas.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth