Vehicles introduced in 1899

thumb|A modern airship, Zeppelin NT D-LZZF in 2010 thumb|The LZ 129 Hindenburg|LZ 129 Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built and was destroyed in 1937. thumb|120px|upright|Dirigible airships compared with related aerostats, from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1890–1907 An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power. Aerostats use buoyancy from a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding air to achieve the lift needed to stay airborne.