Early gondolas were open structures slung beneath the envelope, later ones were enclosed and hung directly from the internal framing.

Where there were multiple engines on larger airships, these were placed in separate gondolas, termed power cars or engine cars.

Days before, the standard Soviet gondolas were changed to bigger ones brought from Finland without any precautions.

Bodies were carried to the island on special funeral gondolas, including Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Brodsky, Jean Schlumberger, Frederick Rolfe, Horatio Brown, Sergei Diaghilev, Ezra Pound, Luigi Nono, Franco Basaglia, Zoran Mušič, and Salvador de Iturbide y Marzán.

Known as the Spring Series, these grips were known as DS-104 grips on high speed quads and DS-108s on eight passenger gondolas.

At the end of 2008 season the original Skyride gondolas were replaced with smaller and more colourful gondolas.

For centuries gondolas were the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice.

Until the early 20th century, as many photographs attest, gondolas were often fitted with a " felze ", a small cabin, to protect the passengers from the weather or from onlookers.

It is estimated that there were eight to ten thousand gondolas during the 17th and 18th century.

Other attractions on the grounds were the Negro Pavilion, the gondolas on Lake Watauga ( which is still a feature of the park today ) and the Egyptian Pavilion with its belly dancers.

The gondolas were all air conditioned and accessible for wheelchair-users.

Among Dreamland's attractions were a railway that ran through a Swiss alpine landscape, imitation Venetian canals with gondolas, a " Lilliputian Village " with three hundred dwarf inhabitants, and a demonstration of firefighting in which two thousand people pretended to put out a blazing six-story building.

* Ocean Skyway built by Von Roll were bubble-shaped gondolas suspended 75 feet ( 23 m ) above the surface of the ocean.

Three engine gondolas and the separate control cabin were attached to the bottom of the keel.

It originally had 30 gondolas, but was severely damaged in World War II and when subsequently rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced.

Since timber was an abundant resource, flat boats, called " gondolas " ( a spoof on Venetian rowing boats ), were constructed to navigate the " black diamonds " down river to markets around Washington, DC.

Some of the baskets were incorporated into the balloon baskets and airship gondolas used by S. F.

In 1682 Versailles was transformed into the official residence of the king ; eventually the Hall of Mirrors was built ; other smaller châteaux, like the Grand Trianon, were built on the grounds, and a huge canal featuring gondolas and gondoliers from Venice was created.

Human-powered boats include canoes, kayaks, gondolas and boats propelled by poles like a punt.

Semi-rigid airships maintain the envelope shape by internal pressure, but have some form of internal support such as a fixed keel to which control and engine gondolas and stabilizers and steering surfaces are mounted.

A major controversy flared up in 2005-07 when the mayor and many others pushed unsuccessfully for construction of a luxury residential development on public land in Ogden's foothills and a new ski resort in the mountains above the city, to be accessed by a pair of aerial gondolas.

A Ferris wheel ( also known as an observation wheel or big wheel ) is a nonbuilding structure consisting of a rotating upright wheel with passenger cars ( sometimes referred to as gondolas or capsules ) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, the cars are kept upright, usually by gravity.

Whistler is served by a total of 20 lifts ; 2 gondolas, 7 high-speed detachable quad chair lifts, 2 fixed grip chair lifts, 2 T-bars.

In the summer months the ski gondolas are used by mountain bikers and tourists who wish to get a summit view of Long Valley Caldera directly to the east and Sierra peaks to the west, south and north.

Boats driven by oars ( i. e. rowing boats, including gondolas ) or paddles ( i. e. canoes, kayaks, rafts ) are steered by generating a higher propulsion force on the side of the boat opposite of the direction of turn.

On older installations, gondolas are accelerated manually by an operator.

The first ski lifts at Funi opened in 1934-44, and was followed by a number of gondolas, ski and chair lifts.

Mammoth has more than of skiable terrain, serviced by 28 lifts, including 3 gondolas.

Even though the Gondola by now has become a widely publicized icon of Venice, in the times of the Republic of Venice it was by far not the only means of transportation: on the map of Venice created by Jacopo de ' Barbari in 1500 only a fraction of the boats are gondolas, the majority of boats are batellas, caorlinas, galleys and other boats-by now only a handful of batellas survive, and caorlinas are used for racing only.

Aquatic transportation is usually covered by swimming, but gondolas, submarines, and even cruise ships have been seen as well.

The slopes are managed by the CDA, and there are 63 lifts: 35 drag lifts, 21 chairs ( includes 7 six-passengers chairs and 3 high-speed quads ), 2 cable cars and 5 gondolas.

An aerial lift is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more cables.

The first three mountains mentioned connected by a series of ski lifts and gondolas.

Inspired by his animators Ward Kimball and Ollie Johnston who had backyard railroads, Walt launched construction of a 1 / 8 scale live steam locomotive, rolling stock such as gondolas and a caboose, track and a small barn modeled in miniature for the one in Marceline, Missouri from his youth to keep them in.

In Venice, gondolas and other similar flat bottomed boats are popular forms of transport propelled by oars which are held in place by an open wooden fòrcola.

Its 238 km of groomed pistes are served by over 40 mechanical lifts including cable cars, gondolas, detachable chair lifts and some T-bars.

Rigid airships have a structural framework which maintain the shape and carries all loads such as from gondolas, engines.

Two aerial tramway cars, known as gondolas, and numbered ' 1 ' and ' 2 ', operate in opposition on a cable, and a service is provided at roughly fifteen minute intervals throughout the day.

Many gondolas are lushly appointed with crushed velvet seats and Persian rugs.

Ultimately Goodyear built 9 envelopes, Goodrich built 5 and Curtiss built the gondolas for all of those 14 ships.

Connecticut Aircraft contracted with U. S. Rubber for its two envelopes and with Pigeon Fraser for its gondolas.

Telerin is also said to resemble the Italian language in some regards, and the swan ships of Alqualondë bear some resemblance to the gondolas of Venice.

At that time, real estate developer Mabry McMahan envisioned a bayside luxury development modeled after Venice, Italy ( hence the name " Santa Venetia "-there is no actual Christian saint named Venice or Venetia ), complete with canals and gondolas.

The festival is also host to the Indiana Bocce Ball championship, boasts one of the few coal mining museums in the nation, and owns one of fewer than 400 genuine gondolas in the United States.

The rail line was once part of the now defunct Southern Railway and prior to that the Atlantic & Yadkin Railway and until a few years ago many older Southern marked freight gondolas could be found parked on a side track downtown and at the nearby old Pomona Clay pit.

The mountains are accessed primarily via three gondolas, Blackcomb Excalibur Gondola and Whistler Mountain Village Gondola in the Village, and the Whistler Creekside Gondola to the south in the Creekside area.

Larger ski areas may use gondolas or aerial trams for transportation across longer distances within the ski area.

; CR. 42CN: Night fighter version with spotlights in gondolas under the wings and prolonged engine exhausts.

* Hoppers: similar to gondolas but with bottom dump doors for easy unloading of things like coal, ore, grain, cement, ballast and the like.