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    SS (Submarine Scout or Sea Scout) class airships were simple, cheap and easily assembled small non-rigid airships or "blimps" that were developed as a...
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  • a class of Royal Navy non-rigid airship or "blimp" developed by the United Kingdom during World War I as a successor to the earlier SS class airship. Found...
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    Scout Zero) non-rigid airships or "blimps" were developed in United Kingdom during World War I from the earlier SS ("Sea Scout") class. The main role of these...
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  • (Sea Scout Twin) class of non-rigid airship or "blimp" was developed in Great Britain during World War I from the earlier SS class airship. The main role...
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    small airships to counteract the submarine and mine threat in coastal waters. Beginning in February 1915, they began to develop the SS (Sea Scout) class of...
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    patrol balloons were built, particularly by the British, including the SS class airship of which 158 were built including subtypes. As the conflict continued...
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    AT-2 from France in 1922, shortly after losing its first airship, a British SS class airship, in an explosion. It was assembled at Tokorozawa in 1923...
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    Blimp (redirect from Non-rigid airship)
    British Army airship Beta Coastal class airship, C* class airship UK coastal blimps used in WW I SS, SSP, SST, SSZ and NS class airships, convoy escort...
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    this configuration. The envelope of this airship was used for the prototype of the very successful SS class airship which was used for anti U-boat activities...
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    class of rigid airships were developed during World War I using the experience gained from the 23 class, but only two of the planned four R.23X class...
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    operating SS18, an SS class airship, which was later joined by airships SS22, SS24 and SS25. The station had in a large airship hangar, 120 by 318 feet...
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    pp.9 & 12 De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour 1914-19, Vol 4, p226 "SS class airship". Airship Heritage Trust. Retrieved 19 October 2015. Lewis, Cecil. (Chapter...
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  • effort, undertaken in 1916 with a non-rigid SS class airship, was aimed at the anti-Zeppelin role. The airship was to provide fast climb to altitude, while...
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  • involved in the development and flight testing of non-rigid airships, with the SS-class airship (Submarine Scout) being the first type to operate from there...
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    aircraft was not proceeded with. In 1916, the British modified a small SS class airship for the purpose of night-time aerial reconnaissance over German lines...
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  • Whitworth F.K.3 (1915) Armstrong Whitworth F.K.4 (1915) – gondola for SS class airship Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6 (1916) – Escort fighter triplane Armstrong...
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    newspaper. Willows No. 4 - His Majesty's Naval Airship No. 2 - purchased in 1912 SS (Sea Scout) class - 60 airships, the first entered service in March 1915...
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    transparent aircraft ceased. In 1916, the British modified a small SS class airship for the purpose of night-time reconnaissance over German lines on the...
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  • class airship Astra-Torres airship SS class airship SSP class airship SST class airship SSZ class airship Coastal class airship C Star class airship NS class...
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  • A.D. Cunningham. The first airship for Capel was to have been SS-1 the first of a new sea scout class of non-rigid airships, on delivery to Capel from...
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    Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8—1915 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4a—1915 SS class airship – 1915 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4 – 1916 Royal Aircraft Factory F...
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  • of airship accidents. It includes both rigid airships and blimps, which operated differently from one another. Not included on this list are airships shot...
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  • manufactured by the Curtiss Aircraft Company O-1 Airship, an Italian manufactured semi-rigid airship operated by the US Navy O1 (Hiroyuki Sawano album)...
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    Amundsen-Ellsworth 1926 Transpolar Flight. Norge was the first N-class semi-rigid airship designed by Italian aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile and its...
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  • USS Wright may refer to: USS Wright (AV-1), was launched in 1920 as airship tender AZ-1, then converted twice more during her career for various duties...
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  • Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian), a World War II German unit Italia (airship), a semi-rigid airship used in a series of flights around...
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    Jenny UK zeppelin fighter 1914 SS class airship UK patrol blimp 1915 SST class airship UK patrol blimp 1918 SSZ class airship UK patrol blimp 1916 Vickers...
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    USS O-12 (redirect from SS-73)
    USS O-12 (SS-73) was an O-class submarine of the United States Navy. These later O-boats, O-11 through O-16, were designed by Lake Torpedo Boat to different...
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    and eight survivors, including General Nobile. Italia was an N-class semi-rigid airship, designation N-4. It was almost identical in design to the N-1...
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    manufacturers. Spherical crewed free gas balloons used for airship crew training were considered ZF-class aircraft but categorically never received formal designations...
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