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Lost Worlds: Age of the Airship

Lost Worlds: Age of the Airship

Thu June 19th at 11:00am

Airships flew years before the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane, yet it has been almost forgotten.

 

The largest aircraft ever built was an airship. The first aerial bombardment of one nation by another was conducted using airships and they remain the only airborne aircraft carriers ever built.

 

Follow the rise and fall of the airship and discover the shining future of air travel that never was.