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Old 02-25-2011, 04:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
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You are of course correct to say that you don't need a war to develop the airship.
However, your example of Leonardo Torres Quevedo's airship and the claim that you don't need the Germans is misleading and incorrect...by about 8 years.

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^ And that was by no means the first.
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