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The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 the first powered and steerable (French: dirigeable – directable) airship to fly. The craft featured an elongated hydrogen-filled envelope that tapered to a point at each end. From this was suspended a long beam with a triangular sail-like rudder at its aft end and beneath the beam a platform for the pilot and steam engine.
