Three men are in a gondola of a semi-rigid Lebaudy airship and beside it on the ground are two men. The first experimental Lebaudy airship was built in 1902. Paul and Pierre Lebaudy were the owners of a sugar refinery who, with the assistance of their engineer Henri Julliot as designer, built semi-rigid airships which saw service with the French army, the Russian army and the Austrian army.
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