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Ezekiel Airship

The Ezekiel airship is a story about a flying machine that was said to have been designed by a man named Henry H. Timken in the early 1900s. The design of the airship was based on a vision in the Bible that Ezekiel had of a flying chariot.

Now, imagine a really big wagon with a bunch of balloons tied to it. The wagon has a big fan on it that blows air into the balloons, which then causes the wagon to lift off the ground and fly like a big balloon in the sky. This is kind of what the Ezekiel airship was like.

The design of the airship was supposed to be a combination of a dirigible (which is kind of like a big balloon) and an airplane (which is like a car that can fly). The airship was supposed to have a large gas-filled balloon that would lift it into the air and then a set of wings and engines that would help it to move forward through the sky.

However, the Ezekiel airship was never actually built, and many people now believe that the whole story was just a hoax. While some people still believe that the Ezekiel airship was a real invention, there is no evidence to support this claim, and it remains a mystery to this day.