Airship

Inspiration by J. Verne

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In 1886, the French publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel published the 28th title of the writer Jules Verne entitled Robur the Conqueror (also in Czech as Airship Around the World). In this and the following two adventure sequels, Captain Robur and his crew of five and the Albatros, which was a kind of aerial craft powered by … Read more

The forgotten primacy

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Today, probably few people know this, but long before the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia, an important milestone in the history of world aviation began to be written in Brno. It was the takeoff of the first airship powered by an internal combustion engine and the third completed and tested vessel of its kind in … Read more