Airships

Welcome to Britain Week here at OPOD. With the UK voting to succeed from the European Union last week, it seems appropriate to recognize their independent spirit by featuring them on OPOD. We start with this picture from 1899 of the the British warship, the Victory. This was Lord Nelson's flagship.´

Airships

Welcome to Lighter than Air Week here at OPOD. We will be looking at early flight that was accomplished by craft which were, well . . . lighter than air. In the earliest of airships, the gas was a lighter than air gas that came off burning coal. Then later, they used either Hydrogen or Helium as the lifting gas. Today's picture is from around 1920.