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Giant Airships Might Be Flying Over You Sooner Than You Know

This makes the airship ideal for search and rescue missions, as well as research and monitoring purposes. The airship was actually designed by HAV on behalf of the US Army as a surveillance platform, but due to budget cuts, the project was scrapped.

In Germany, You Can Hit the Beach in the Middle of Winter

Content and image source: Wimp The Tropical Islands Resort travel, beach, architecture, resort, amazing places, tropical, airship, hangar In the middle of the German winter, there are Germans who head to the beach. How is this possible? Find out the secret in this post.

Rare Photos Showing What Flying on the Zeppelin Was Like

On the 11th of October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG's operations, began the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights.

Have You Ever Been to an Indoor Rain forest?

The structure was commissioned as an airship hangar in November 2000, but the airship it was intended to house – the CL160 – was never built. The company went bankrupt in mid-2002. Two years later, Tropical Islands Resort was opened.

These Postcards Predicted Modern Life Way Back In 1900...

Personal airships. IMAGE: HILDEBRANDS/PUBLIC DOMAIN 10. Tourism at the North Pole. IMAGE: HILDEBRANDS/PUBLIC DOMAIN 11. X-ray surveillance device. IMAGE: HILDEBRANDS/PUBLIC DOMAIN 12. Strolling on a lake with the aid of balloons.

20 Safety Fails That Will Make Your Heart Skip a Beat

Construction of the USS Macon airship, 1934 Image Source: Reddit Related: These Pictures Offer Some Fascinating Moments in History 16. Casually cleaning the windows 20 meters (65 ft) above ground Image Source: Pikabu 17. A quick fix Image Source: Reddit 18. Just... why? Image Source: Reddit 19.

Our World is an Incredible Place – 12 Breathtaking Images

This is how big an airship hangar is 10. Look at the size of this monstrous machine 11. Sleipner A is an offshore oil platform located in the North Sea. It was one of the first platforms to employ concrete gravity-based structure technology for offshore oil production.

These Jaw-Dropping Photos Reveal the TRUE Scale of Things

A photo from the 1920s depicting travelers boarding an airship 11. The size of a Lion's Mane Jellyfish compared to that of a human and a blue whale 12. A view upon the Ice Canyon in Greenland and a human for scale 13. The Mars Rover is much bigger than most people imagine 14.

20 Most Beautiful Beaches You Could Be Lying On Right Now.

Tropical Islands Resort, Germany An artificial in-door beach inside a huge airship hanger. Hidden Beach, Mexico An unexpected result of bomb testing bone by the Mexican government in the early 1900's. Papakōlea Beach, Hawaii One of only 4 beaches in the world with green sand.

We Got Hold of Some Rare Historical Pics. Want to See?

USS Los Angeles Airship Lands on the USS Saratoga, January 1928 19. A young boy shows off his bike to the neighborhood girls, 1972 20. 

Extraordinary Inventions By Tesla That Were Never Built!

Supersonic Airships Powered by Ground-Based, Wireless Electrical Towers Source: Frank R. Paul [Public domain] / Wikimedia Commons You might have thought that wireless charging of your phone was revolutionary. However, Nikola Tesla may not have been all that impressed with the idea.

Lets Open a Window to the Past...

The airship Hindenburg watches over the Berlin Olympic Stadium during the 1936 Olympics. 9. Times Square, 1945. 10. Albert Einstein, holding the Nobel Prize for Physics, meets the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1930. 11.

20 Old Buildings That Were Repurposed Quite Creatively

The “Tropical Islands” waterpark in Germany used to be a former airship hangar in Krausnick. Image source: tropicalislandsresort 8. An old rusty ship in South Korea has been repurposed into a spectacular building with trees and plants. Image source: boredpanda.com 9. 

These Wonderful Shots Are From Many Special Times Gone By

A British R33-class airship, which measured almost 650 feet long, pokes its nose out of a gigantic hangar in Barlow, Yorkshire prior to its launch in 1919. This scene inside a butcher’s shop was captured on Water Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1905.

A Slice of History – 20 Powerful Images of Yesteryear

The airship Le Jaune ("The Yellow One") flying past the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France - 1903 Image source: Reddit Share these photos with other history buffs... 20 Rarely-Seen Photos You Won’t Find in History Books photos, history, baba recommends, old photos, historical photos, vintage photos, rare

Historical Window: Looking at Women Workers in WWI

Source: University of British Columbia Library A worker drills holes in a piece of metal for an airship shed rib. Source: University of British Columbia Library Workers shovel dirt in a dressing shop. Source: University of British Columbia Library War Office vehicles get a lick of paint.

13 Unusual Vintage Vehicles You’ve Probably Never Seen

It was an experimental railcar, designed and developed by the German aircraft engineer Franz Kruckenberg in 1929, which resembled the Zeppelin airship in its looks. Image source - Wikimedia Commons 4. The 1920 Curtiss "Scooter" airboat built by aircraft engineer Glenn Curtiss.

Learn 10 Amazing Facts About the World's Tallest Buildings

The Empire State Building’s spire was conceived for blimps Before disasters such as the Hindenburg disaster took place, many envisioned airships docking with the spire of the Empire State Building, but plans for the docking station were foiled when the designers realized that the strong winds at nearly

These Are the Most Incredible Trains Ever Built

Inspired by the Zeppelin airships of the early 20 th Century, the Schienenzeppelin set what was the world rail speed record, reaching 143 mph (230 km/h) back in 1931. In fact, this railcar still holds the world speed record for a petrol-powered rail vehicle.