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An airship or dirigible is a "lighter-than-air aircraft" that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust.

The father of the dirigible was Lieutenant Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier (1754-93). On 3 December 1783, he presented a historic paper to the French Academy: "Memoire sur l'equilbre des Machines Aerostatique" (Memorandum on the balance of aerostatic machines).

In 1784, Jean-Pierre Blanchard fitted a hand-powered propeller to a balloon, the first recorded means of propulsion carried aloft

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