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Disk-Dirigible Star Trek “Enterprise”, 1932

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An indulgence: I’ve posted a few things on this site of old and/or found tech that reminds me of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). Here is one that popped up in the pages of Popular Mechanics for May 1932–an airship designed by Guido Tallei that was effectively a flying saucer, a dirigible-disk. There was another design from him from 1931 that was similar to this except that it looked a LOT like a sleek underwater-swimming penguin.  

 

Enterprise flying disk 1932April, 1932, Popular Mechanics

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