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Subject:Re: (NVC) Re: (LVC) Oh, The Humanity!... zeppelins & sister-ships
From:Kim Brennan
Date:Sun, 6 May 2007 22:12:05 -0400
ARE dirigibles, not blimps or balloons.

The Hindenberg and Graf Zeppelin were dirigibles, i.e. rigid airships.

On May 6, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:

> Technically the two zeppelins (aan aside, very few people seem to
> know that zeppelins are not dirigibles are not blimps are not
> balloons) were not sister-ships, as they were not of the same design.
> Sister-ships are those of a particular design eg: