0 a large aircraft without wings, used especially in the past, consisting of a large bag filled with gas that is lighter than air and driven by engines. Passengers were carried in a structure hanging below. -- （软式）飞艇（尤在旧时使用的大型飞行器，艇身为充满轻于空气气体的气囊，由发动机提供动力，下部为封闭的载人吊舱）
Express towed the airship around the headland and released her into a northwesterly wind and snow in which she was soon lost from view.
This they proceeded to do after it had become clear that the airship had disappeared.
The airship was undamaged except for the rudder.
The purpose of the launch was to make weather observations prior to the launch of the airship.
The third area dealt with the autorotating behaviour of non-stabilized airships, re-entry bodies, released nose sections of fuselages, and hailstones of oblate-spheroidal shape.
It has been stated that, as men progress, they shall be able to travel in airships and reach any part of the world in a few hours.
Six hundred large airships were actually built and flown.
There were two positions in which that airship could have easily flown that day and given a view.
