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Not exactly a blimp, massive airship debuts at Moffett Field in Mountain View

Original post made on Nov 22, 2023

Reviving an early 20th-century ambition, an experimental airship debuted at Moffett Field this month, albeit for only a few minutes before technicians rolled the massive aircraft back inside its cloistered hangar.

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Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Nov 22, 2023 at 8:14 pm
Steven Nelson is a registered user.

Correction needed: The fate of the Hindenburg (though it preceded most of us) was determined not over the Atlantic Ocean, but over New Jersey! NAS Lakehurst. The USS Akron (ZRS-4) was also a Helium dirigible, but it Did crash off the coast of New Jersey. (It had visited Moffitt Field aka NAS Sunnyvale earlier)

Web Link (Wikipedia on the Hindenburg)

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