In 1909 the French Santos-Dumont dirigible was tested as ???, i.e. carrier(?) for Bis-14 airship.

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In 1909 the French Santos-Dumont dirigible was tested as Bis-14 airship carrier.
Yep?

Из Вики:
Air launching is the practice of dropping a parasite aircraft, rocket, or missile from a mothership.

One of the earliest uses of air launching used an airship as a carrier and docking station for biplane parasite fighters. These planes would connect to their mothership through a trapeze-like rig, mounted to the top of the upper wing, that attached to a hook dangling from the bottom of the dirigible above. Fighters could be both launched and retrieved this way, giving the airship the speed and striking power of fixed-wing craft, while giving the fighters the range and lingering time of an airship. With advances in airplane technology, especially in range, the value of a dirigible mothership was reduced and the concept became obsolete. Nevertheless, the idea of lighter-than-air motherships for fleets of smaller aircraft remains romanticized in fiction today, in games such as Crimson Skies and Final Fantasy.

ОФФ. Илья, что не спится-то?

2Vintager-IV
Не спится? Да так.., перевёлся, вот, на удалённый режим работы..А ночь я люблю больше, чем день. Спокойнее и комфортнее как-то в это время суток. И что самое главное не видно омерзительных серых облаков.