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    (1930: Tonbridge Mourns Its R101 Victim). The R101 Airship was the largest airship to ever fly. The construction of the R101 Airship took a year to complete because of the many innovative plans that were intended to be used on the ship. On October 4, 1930, the R101 Airship departed on a journey to India. After being damaged by storms, the airship fell to the ground and crashed, resulting in the death of forty eight people. The R101 airship disaster was caused by three main things: it was not

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    A Heros Journey

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    the museum could afford this voyage, the museum wasn’t doing great financially, I had some of my money with me in the case of emergencies. The room was big enough for a desk, a bed, a closet, and a dresser. The walls were bare wood from the airship, which gave it a neat look to the room. We were airborne, I was going to write a letter to the curator about the issues I had with Seth, but I decided not to write it, instead I decided to go to the dining hall and eat. When I made my way to the dining

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    than air luxurious airship that have a very enthralling story. In fact, the airship was thoroughly inspired by the Zeppelin warship. Which was originally created by Count Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von Zeppelin, the inventor of blimp airship. However, constructing the blimp was not simple, as Zeppelin have to take on many problem until he had successfully erected one. The Hindenburg had immensely impacted the development of aviation by ending the era of transportation airship. Nevertheless, the

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    Most LTA (Lighter Than Air) aircrafts use helium now, but in the past they used hydrogen because it is even lighter than helium, but the problem with hydrogen is that is highly flammable. LTA aircrafts use helium to generate lift, which keeps the airship in the air. Helium has a lifting capacity of 1.02 meters cubed.

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    Essay about Hindenburg

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    commander of the ship’s arrival, was an anxious man the day of his ship’s arrival. He frequently paced his spartan office that day hoping to see his airship safely moored to the mast and passengers disembarked unharmed.

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    Balloon Persuasive Essay

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    Meandering down the street, a man sees tons of balloons being liberated on a small child’s, maybe even a toddler’s, birthday party. Remembering what a pleasure parties were when he released balloons as a child, he does not realize the veracity of this situation. All knowledge considered, no one should blame him; after all, the balloon industry has put a cap on everyone and everything that goes against it and it’s habits. In fact, balloons are common, and seemingly harmless party decorations, but

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    The history of hot air balloons starts in the Asia. Literary references in China date back to 180ce and cite Chu Ko Liang as the inventor of lighter than air flight (1). Early unmanned balloons were used in China as military signaling lanterns (2). Today ethnic Chinese communities celebrate the end of the Lunar New Year Holidays (3) by launching small hot air balloons ( known as Kung-Ming Lanterns ). The first recorded mathematical description of buoyancy (and thus hot air balloon behavior) was

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    Some people have the need to have a physical reminder that something is going away. The helium balloon flying away is a physical reminder that forgiveness lets the negative float away and replaces it with something positive. It is about recreating the way you perceive an event or situation. One young man used helium balloons  as his physical reminder. He wanted to make it be a sincere and meaningful exercise. He purchased 50 helium balloons. He attached a dollar and a note that said “Have a positive

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    mistaken for UFOs. My belief is that once you have eliminated all the obvious and, sometimes the not so obvious, whatever you are left with must be the answer. New Zealand has a long history of UFO activity beginning in the late 19th century with the airship flap of the period, when there was a rash of sightings of

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    known as airships? Probably not. Zeppelins were once very popular. People all over the world wanted to fly on them, until the well-known zeppelin called the Hindenburg went up in flames. Today, there are companies that are trying to bring back the airships that are safer for the world to use. There are many reasons that zeppelins or airships could be very popular again. One reason they could be popular again is because they are safe and good fro the environment. Modern day airships would use

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