Simon Willison’s Weblog

Historic Airship Pictures: the Shenandoah, the Los Angeles, the Akron and the Macon as well as the Zeppelins and many more. The US Navy built some truly beautiful airships back in the 1930s.

Posted 16th August 2008 at 11:49 pm

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