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==Examples of non-rigid airships== Manufacturers in many countries have built blimps in many designs.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQs – Business of blimps|publisher=[[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company]]|url=http://www.goodyearblimp.com/faqs/faqs_business.html#three|access-date=2009-12-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302160037/http://www.goodyearblimp.com/faqs/faqs_business.html#three|archive-date=2010-03-02}}</ref> Some examples include: *[[ADB-3-X01]], the largest lightship ever manufactured by [[Airship do Brasil]], the only blimp manufacturing company in [[Latin America]] *[[AVIC AS700 Airship]] *[[Astra-Torres airship]], non-rigid airships manufactured by [[Société Astra]] and used in [[World War I]] by France and UK *[[British Army airship Beta]] *[[Coastal class airship]], [[C Star class airship|C* class airship]] UK coastal blimps used in WW I *[[SS class airship|SS]], [[SSP class airship|SSP]], [[SST class airship|SST]], [[SSZ class airship|SSZ]] and [[NS class airship]]s, convoy escort blimps used by the UK in WW I *[[G class blimp]] and [[L class blimp]], US training blimps built by Goodyear during [[World War II]] *[[K class blimp]] and [[M class blimp]], US anti-submarine blimps operated during World War II *[[Mantainer Ardath|Mantainer ''Ardath'']], an Australian blimp, in use during the mid-1970s *[[N class blimp]] (the "Nan ship"), used for anti-submarine and as a radar early-warning platform during the 1950s *[[Goodyear Blimp]]s, a fleet of blimps operated for advertising purposes and as a [[Professional video camera|television camera]] platform *[[Airship Industries Skyship 600|Skyship 600]], a private blimp used by advertising companies *[[P-791]], an experimental aerostatic/aerodynamic [[hybrid airship]] developed by [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed-Martin]] corporation *SVAM CA-80, an airship manufactured by the Shanghai Vantage Airship Manufacture Co in [[China]] *[[TC-3]] and TC-7, two US Army Corps non-rigid blimps used for [[parasite fighter]] trials during 1923–24 *[[UConn Lumpy |UConn ''Lumpy'']], an airship built and flown in 1975 by students at the University of Connecticut *[[WDL 2]], airship for aerial advertising manufactured and used by WDL Group, Germany *[[Willows airships]] {{Clear}} <gallery> File:DIRECTV Airship in North Carolina.jpg|[[DIRECTV blimp]] Airship, Model A-170LS Video Lightsign File:B class blimp.jpg| File:Blimps.jpg| File:Metlife snoopy two blimp.jpg|An A-60+, the [[MetLife]] Snoopy Two<ref>{{cite web|title=The MetLife Blimp|year=2009|publisher=[[MetLife]]|url=http://www.metlife.com/about/advertising/metLife-blimp/index.html|access-date=2009-12-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091219054702/http://www.metlife.com/about/advertising/metLife-blimp/index.html|archive-date=2009-12-19}}</ref> </gallery>
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