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Montgolfier brothers
The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, were French paper manufacturers from Annonay who invented the hot-air balloon; in 1783 their balloon carried the first humans in free flight.
Nadar
Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, a French photographer and balloonist credited with the first aerial photograph in 1858, who also photographed the Paris Catacombs by electric light.
Nordholz Naval Airbase
Nordholz Naval Airbase is a German Navy air base in Lower Saxony, a principal airship port from 1914 and home of the Naval Air Command since 1964.
R101
R101 was a British rigid airship built in 1929 that crashed in France on 5 October 1930 on its maiden flight to India, killing 48 of 54 aboard.
Richmond Heights, Florida
Richmond Heights, Florida, also known as Richmond Heights, FL, is a Miami-Dade County community founded in 1949 as a planned suburb for African American World War II veterans.
Rigid airship
A rigid airship is a lighter-than-air aircraft with a stiff internal airframe holding its gas cells, pioneered by Count Zeppelin's LZ 1 in 1900 and ended by the 1937 Hindenburg fire.
Tondern raid
The Tondern raid was a British bombing attack on 19 July 1918 by seven Sopwith Camels from HMS Furious that destroyed the airships L 54 and L 60 at Tønder.
USS Akron
USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a US Navy rigid airship, a flying aircraft carrier built by Goodyear-Zeppelin, that crashed off New Jersey in April 1933, killing 73 of the 76 aboard.
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) was a US Navy rigid airship built in Germany as LZ-126, delivered to the United States in 1924 as a war reparation.
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first American rigid airship and the first helium-inflated rigid, flew for the Navy from 1923 until it broke apart over Ohio in 1925, killing 14.
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen is a technology and art museum in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, Germany, holding the world's largest collection on the history of airship travel.