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Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.
a balloon that can be steered; also called an airship
A lighter-than-air craft that can be steered and propelled through the air. From the French word dirigeable meaning steerable. (Also airship) glider" id=" glider" glider An unpowered fixed-wing heavier-than-air craft. (Also sailplane) == helicopter A rotor craft with one or more sets of powered blades.
a steerable self-propelled airship
capable of being steered or directed
A lighter-than-air craft that can be steered and propelled through the air. From the French word dirigeable meaning steerable. (This term is generally considered out-of-date. The modern term is airship.)
A cigar-shaped aircraft that is filled with a gas that is lighter than air. The Goodyear Blimp is a small dirigible.
Dirigible is Frank Capra's 1931 adventure film about the competition to reach the South Pole between a French airship and U.S. naval fixed-wing pilots.
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