Lebaudy Frères was a French sugar producer based in
Moisson, France. In addition to sugar, they also made a series of
semi-rigid airship
A semi-rigid airship is an airship which has a stiff keel or truss supporting the main envelope along its length. The keel may be partially flexible or articulated and may be located inside or outside the main envelope. The outer shape of the ai ...
s in the early years of the twentieth century, some of which saw service with several European armies.
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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
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, the
Russian army
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and the
Austrian army
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.
["Military Airships]
''Flight'' magazine Global Archive: 1909, p.436
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They constructed an airship hangar
Airship hangars (also known as airship sheds) are large specialized buildings that are used for sheltering airships during construction, maintenance and storage. Rigid airships always needed to be based in airship hangars because weathering was a s ...
at Moisson, near the River Seine
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downstream from Paris["The Present Status of Military Aeronautics]
''Flight'' magazine Global Archive: 1909, p. 119
/ref> and were instrumental in the development of airships in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Their semi-rigid airships were considered useful for military purposes and several were ordered by the French War Ministry.[''Patrie'' ordered by War Ministr]
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Airships designed by Henri Julliot for Lebaudy Frères
Lebaudy Frères, Moisson près Mantes (Seine-et-Oise). Builders of pressure airships of the keel-girder type to the designs of M. Henri Juillot (sic). Keel-girder of steel-tubing, forming a rigid understructure. Trim controlled by lifting planes.
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France