Word: airship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balloon costs about $7,000, but custom-built models with designer graphics and suede-covered champagne carriers can go as high as $30,000. Insurance premiums, inspection fees and propane costs add another couple of hundred dollars. To keep down expenses, aeronauts often team up to buy an airship or they join a balloon club. Even so, a would-be pilot may have to pay up to $1,500 for lessons before he can be licensed...
...Chinook was the sixth U.S. airship downed by the North since the Korean War's uneasy truce was signed 24 years ago. In that time, 54 Americans have been killed in a variety of clashes with the North Koreans; last year, Captain Arthur G. Bonifas and Lieut. Mark T. Barrett were bludgeoned to death with pikes and axes when they began pruning a tree in the DMZ. North and South Koreans killed in similar incidents number more than...
...full first name Frederick-was a poor kid who got rich by seeing new possibilities in air transport. The son of a merchant seaman who deserted the family when Laker was six, he has been hooked on flying machines ever since as a kid he saw both the Hindenburg airship and a Handley Page biplane skimming the sky over Canterbury Cathedral. He quit school at 16 and began his aviation career by sweeping floors and making tea at a flying-boat factory. He eventually went on to become both an R.A.F. pilot and a licensed engineer during World...
...Hindenburg contains many beautiful, technically ingenious shots showing a model of the great airship sailing majestically through all sorts of weather and cloud conditions. It also contains many lovingly detailed re-creations of the craft's interior-the elegantly appointed public rooms, the bridge, the 804-ft.-long canvas hull where the volatile hydrogen that kept the thing afloat was stored...
...Airfloat ship has been designed to take advantage of available techniques, materials and components, Mowforth estimates that six of them, with ground facilities, could be built for a total of $144 million. He believes that with each vessel carrying 250 cars and 1,000 passengers at a time, airship travel across the English Channel would be more economical than by the channel tunnel that will cost more than $20 billion...