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Explore Emil Schimpf’s airships on National Aviation Day

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Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:00:33 +0000
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Today, August 19th, marks National Aviation Day and we&#8217;re celebrating with a lesser-known flying vehicle &#8212; the airship. Emil Schimpf&#8217;s ballooning manuscript Vorläufige Instruction über Zusammensetzung Gebrauch des Luftschifferparks was recently added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center and is available for crowd-sourced transcription. Schimpf was a Second Lieutenant in the Badischen Pionier Bataillon Nr. 14, <a href="https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/08/19/explore-emil-schimpfs-airships-national-aviation-day/#more-'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>
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