• An airship is seen flying above the ocean.
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    The USS Los Angeles operating with a Vought UO-1 airplane, over the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States on May 20, 1930. Note the trapeze rigged below the airship for launching and recovering the airplane. A scene like this occurs early in the 1931 film Dirigible. (National Archives and Records Administration, 80-G-461642.)

  • An airship is seen flying above the ocean.

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