Задание

Complete the texts using the words given.

1. On July 2nd 1900 of people living in a German town to watch the very first Zeppelin airship go up in the air. Similar airships had been around for 50 years but the Zeppelin was the first airship with a special design that allowed it to travel faster than those built before. The Zeppelin's was Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. In 1910, the airship Deutschland became the world's first commercial airship. By the start of World War I in 1914, German Zeppelins had travelled over 172,000 km and carried over 34,000 and crew safely.

2. Christopher Cockerel's idea was to build a vehicle that would travel just above the surface of land or water on the cushion of air. His started with two cans, one inside the other, and a hairdryer to blow air into them. The showed that air could produce enough pressure to a vehicle off the ground. In 1959, in the English Channel, Christopher Cockerel the first hovercraft which has been used throughout the world ever since for commercial and military reasons.