![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Making Lego airborne Todd Lehman
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| | (...) Wow, dang! Thanks for the correction! So, what then was the airship in the 3rd IJ movie? I don't have it on viddy and unfortunately it hasn't been burned into my brain yet like the 1st IJ movie. --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | ![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Making Lego airborne Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) ...and engines and directional control surfaces. That's a dirigible; see below. :) Otherwise it's a barrage balloon of the variety used near the front in WWI--no power, but a gondola for observers and a machine gun or two. If you've played (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | ![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Making Lego airborne Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Just saw this last week on the USA channel. It was definitely a zeppelin--Drs Jones escaped by running along a catwalk inside the airship, to one of the airplanes which was hanging off the airship (what were those, escape planes?). The (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | ![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Making Lego airborne Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Nope, those were the Zeppelin's defense screen. :-, A few of them carried a small handful of combat fighters for defense, but they proved to be extremely difficult to "land" under the airbag, and the loading/unloading crane mechanism was (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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