airship

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#1·7h ago

(aviation) A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.

Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.

Origin: From . * (jocular British sense): is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·7h ago

(US, policing, aviation) A police air unit, a police helicopter.

On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.

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#3·7h ago

(aviation, informal) Any aircraft.

I only make them to add perhaps a little weight to my view that, whether one thinks of Their Lordships of the Admiralty, or of Their Airships of the Air Ministry, or of Their Coalships of Lansdowne House, or of any other governing body, …

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