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[Chouchin, 28/09/2007] Airships are surely the dinosaurs of the transport world. Huge, lumbering bodies carrying a very small payload and difficult to manoeuvre. They both had their day in the sun before being extinguished by a fireball and survive only as a barely recognisable relic of their former selves. Like dinosaurs too, airships exercise a fascination over us, representing as they do a world long gone.
It would have been very remiss of Friedrichshafen not to have created a museum in the town, as this was the centre of the German airship industry. Indeed it still is, as airships are used for research an
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