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Published: 04.12.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'About Airships', 1.
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An airship is a lighter than air aircraft. An airship has a huge main body that contains lighter than air gas. The gas raises the aircraft and keeps it afloat the same way a gas balloon is lifted. But airships, unlike balloons have engines to move them thorough the air and almost always have equipment for steering. Balloons are moved by wind and can't be steered, they travel in the direction the wind takes them. …

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