I know that the mooring towers still stand, and I can have you there in a minute."

Giant dirigible that burst into flame as it pulled up to a mooring tower.

The mooring tower was built with a projecting ramp, somewhat like the lip of a pouring spout.

After other docking failures, the mooring tower was abandoned in favor of a safer, more profitable venture: sightseeing.

In the distance, the slim, silvery mooring towers rose up from cluttered streets, soaring toward their vanishing points high above the atmosphere.

A greeting party waited by the mooring towers as automatic snaring devices seized the zep and gently drew it down.

Company held patents covering design and construction of "Metalclad" rigid airships and airship mooring towers.

Dominating the whole scene was the mooring tower, with the huge, silvery, cigar-shaped Safari Queen floating majestically in full view.

The zeppelin's lights illuminated the upturned faces of the men who waited below to grab the lines and pull the airship down to a mooring tower.

Stan had driven her to the mooring tower that morning, helping her with her luggage and the package she had brought for the Consul.

The airship terminal on the north end of town survived only as a blackened hulk, its mooring tower reduced to a spire of charcoal.

When Jan stepped out of the lift at the foot of the mooring tower, he felt as though he had walked through the open door of an oven.

The first was a beached corpse, a bloated, white parody of a man, that had washed up on the mud flats beyond the mooring tower my first evening in town.

From what I can see from the observation promenade and the mooring tower, there can't be more than five thousand people living in that random collection of hovels and barracks.

'But now in the distance, beyond the great mooring towers, I could see tall white buildings rising up and up, storey upon storey, so that it seemed they almost touched the clouds.

A mooring mast, or mooring tower, is a structure designed to allow for the docking of an airship outside of an airship hangar or similar structure.

Then the high desert appeared, the City of Poets glowed white off the port side, and the dirigible descended toward the mooring tower set on the east end of the new spaceport there.

The pilot of a small craft jockeyed for position for half an hour, with a rope hanging down, which the ship's crew on the building finally caught and attached to the mooring tower for three minutes.

Two weeks later, in a publicity stunt, a Goodyear Blimp dangled a bundle of newspapers from a 100-foot rope to the mooring tower, where a workman caught the bundle, but the blimp was never moored.

The capital, now referred to as Jacktown by indigenie, visiting FORCE shipmen, and Ouster alike, looked white and clean in the morning light as the dirigible left the downtown mooring tower and headed northwest up the Hoolie River.