This was an important matter, for the previous experience of England in the construction of rigid airships had not been happy.
Some of the buildings are still in use, particularly the hangar which was built to accommodate the rigid airships.
In a rigid airship it is the outer fabric covering, stretched over the structural framework.
The Royal Navy was to continue development of rigid airships until the end of the war.
The biggest airships were rigid airships made in the 1920s and 1930's.
Both America and Britain have manufactured rigid airships at some point.
The age of the great rigid airships came and went.
The hangar is the only original surviving example of structures built to accommodate rigid airships in the world.
This led to the development of semi-rigids and rigid airships.
This was the first flight of a rigid airship across North America.
Wörterbuch für Luftfahrtbranche