Balloon
Zeppelin
Zeppelin noun - A large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs.
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Appropriated Appellation: Led Zeppelin got their name when Keith Moon and John Entwistle suggested that a supergroup with them, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, would "go down like a lead balloon".
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin threw the entire German government out of his airship during its maiden voyage; it wasn't for not supporting him, but for calling his airship a "balloon".
- She launched the Tondern Raid, the first carrier raid in history, with seven Sopwith Camels attacking a German zeppelin base, destroying two airships and a balloon, for the loss of one plane.
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