Kenneth Oppel

Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

Canadian Author

One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.

Steve Fossett

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

American Aviator

Jens Martin Skibsted

The advantage of using airships in remote areas with little road infrastructure to support development is clear. Airships could ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies to remote communities.

Danish Designer

Kerry Washington

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!

American Actress

Edd China

I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings and studios and all kinds of stuff.

English Entertainer

The cost of building large airships can be prohibitive. The entry barrier is considerable and could be a show-stopper for large-scale projects.

Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.

Airships were more common in the past; modern aircrafts like airplanes are now predominant.

Technology Evolution

Airships have a rich history, including use in war and exploration.

Historical Usage

Unlike balloons, airships are powered and steerable.

Physical Characteristics

In fantasy, airships often represent advanced or magical transport.

Imaginative Transportation

Airships are heavily associated with the steampunk genre's retrofuturistic style.

Steampunk Aesthetic

Literarily, airships can symbolize exploration, innovation, or escape.

Symbolic Meanings

 it's as simple as that no heat is required and because hydrogen in large quantities produces a lot of lift it wasn't long before people were attaching machinery to balloons to achieve a powered flight these powered balloons became known as airships originally they were hand or

Airships PIPE I Didn't Know...

 Star Wars and all those airships in Miyazaki's castle in the sky have used this idea of 180-degree firing gun in such cool ways so I knew I had to have boat hours in my toe so I started with something new absolutely nothing about I figured that

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 that could be linked to orbiting camera satellites. So if we could roll the next film here. This has evolved over the years in a lot of different iterations. But this the current version of it, is a flying airship