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		johan_larson 12 days ago \| parent \| favorite \| on: When the Hindenburg Was the Height of Luxe In-Flig... The PBS NOVA series had a very nice episode a few years back about the WWI airship raids on London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzW4258oIyg It turns out the airship gasbags were made of cow-guts. Lots and lots of cow-guts.

InclinedPlane 12 days ago

Yup. It took a truly incredible amount of manual labor to sew them all together.

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