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 ==== Lighter Than Air ====
-**"In an airship, one does not fly, one does not drive. Instead, one travels in a most beautiful way that gives meaning to the word journey."  -- Hugo Eckener **
+===== "In an airship, one does not fly, one does not drive. Instead, one travels in a most beautiful way that gives meaning to the word journey."  -- Hugo Eckener =====\\
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 "The Little Japan" vehicle was developed so that its creator Kazuya Kanemaru and any volunteer could travel to towns and villages on it.\\
-They were searching for a place to launch the attached balloon that was shaped like Little Boy, the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945.
+They were searching for a place to launch the attached balloon that was shaped like Little Boy, the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945.\\
+source: via www.we-make-money-not-art.com
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 "Om te kunnen vliegen moest Panamarenko materiaal kiezen dat licht en stevig was", zegt Van Oosten. "Hij had polyetheen of polypropeen kunnen gebruiken, maar die plastics zijn niet transparant en hij wilde graag een doorzichtige ballon. Daarom koos hij voor 0,35 millimeter dik pvc, dat stevig is en ook transparant."\\
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-LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. Along with its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, it was the largest aircraft ever built. During its second year of service, it went up in flames and was destroyed while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S., on 6 May 1937. Thirty-six people died in the accident, which was widely reported by film, photography and radio media.\\
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+-Unknown Air-oared airship and aeronaut at unknown location (baseball park) circa 1905\\
+-Air-oared airship ~ 1905. Airship build by Captain Thomas C. Baldwin was flown by l. Guy Mecklem  for balwin at Washington Gardens (commonly known as Chutes Park)Los Angelas. Propelled by two air-oares operated by the pilot who "rowed" the airshio throught the air. Note inflatation valve at the aft end of the airbag.\\
+source: http://www.earlyaviator.com/ note; at this site one can find a most wonderfull early airships and captive balloon collection.
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 NASA's Dryden Flight Research center Photo Collection.
 photo ED01-0209-3, date 14 july 2001. photo by Nick Galante/PMRP
-The Helios Prototype wing is shown over the Pacific Ocean during its first testflight on solar-power.
+The Helios Prototype wing is shown over the Pacific Ocean during its first testflight on solar-power.\\
 source: www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo\\
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 Prospective Concepts, a Swiss company developed the Flying Stingray an ultralight lifting body in the shape of a stingray but still using propellers as propulsion.\\
+source: via www.myairship.com/ official site: http://www.prospective-concepts.ch
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