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The New York Times May 3, 2025 Nearly 88 years ago, on the evening of May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg passenger airship met its fiery fate.
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John Otis, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The Hindenburg crash effectively brought about the end of the commercial airship industry.
—John Otis, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The museum’s showstopper is the Gulliver Airship, a fantastic and imaginative 130-foot-long wood and steel zeppelin inspired by airships of the early twentieth century.
—Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Whether its airship ultimately ends up an economic boon or boondoggle remains to be seen ... although the same can be said of many other visionary startups, airship and otherwise.
—New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
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John Otis, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The Hindenburg crash effectively brought about the end of the commercial airship industry.
—John Otis, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The museum’s showstopper is the Gulliver Airship, a fantastic and imaginative 130-foot-long wood and steel zeppelin inspired by airships of the early twentieth century.
—Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Whether its airship ultimately ends up an economic boon or boondoggle remains to be seen ... although the same can be said of many other visionary startups, airship and otherwise.
—New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airship
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According to the report, electrical power line installers make over $85,000 a year, and aircraft mechanics technicians have an average annual salary of $76,260.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
9 July 2025
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The aircraft had just left the stand at Milan Bergamo Airport en route to Asturias, northwestern Spain, on Tuesday morning local time, according to CNN affiliate Sky TG24, when the incident occurred.—
Antonia Mortensen,
CNN Money,
8 July 2025
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Further to that, there's evidence scattered across the Earth of the DC Universe that Kal-El's ship didn't break light speed.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
7 July 2025
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As a result, according to Cheever, every man, woman, child, and ship’s mate on the Mayflower was provisioned a full gallon of beer per day for their grueling ocean crossing.—
James Dodson
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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This phone mount can attach to almost anything—an airplane tray table, your luggage handle, a desk, and more.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
13 July 2025
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There are real-looking airplanes on runways with proper lighting and even cracks visible in the virtual pavement.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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Professional and amateur photographers worldwide were invited to enter the competition capturing breathtaking and mostly never-before-seen views using modern drones equipped with high-resolution sensors or more traditional modes of transport such as planes, helicopters and even balloons.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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When Benedict departed the Vatican, his helicopter landed at the villa, and Francis greeted him there less than a month later.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
6 July 2025
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The report said that the plane had complied with all airworthiness directives.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
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One month after an Air India flight crashed and killed over 200 people, investigators on Saturday revealed the fuel to both engines of the Boeing 787 plane had been mysteriously cut off prior to the incident.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
12 July 2025
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Through the use of a long, narrow airframe and canards, the X-59 is able to reduce the noise that reaches the ground from sonic booms generated as the aircraft crosses the speed of sound.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
20 May 2025
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The use case that really stuck with me was aerospace, specifically the idea that a single M2000 can simulate a multibillion-cell airframe in under 24 hours — something that would normally take a Top 500 supercomputer eight days.—
Anshel Sag,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Challenge a good ol’ boy on a tractor to diagram a sentence and the reaction would likely amount to a short grunt.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
10 July 2025
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Rose cheering Tony Perez’s clutch home run in the 1975 World Series, chatting with Sparky Anderson, and posing with his Big Red Machine teammates on a tractor.—
Jeff Suess,
The Enquirer,
3 July 2025
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“Airship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airship. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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