dirigible

steerable

Adjective

From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).

A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
- Do you know, Louis, of any great secret military camp where a surprise fleet of dirigibles and flying machines of a new and terrible pattern is being formed by a far-seeing Government as a reserve against the day of...
- On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings. - 1980, AA Book of British...
- People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down. - 2023 February 4, Katie Rogers, “Look!...