Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nonrigid airships (balloons) are constructed with no metal framework in the gasbag save a ring at the bottom to which fabric, valves and passenger basket are attached. The semirigid dirigible ("blimp") employs a keel or spine of structural metal usually aluminum, to stiffen the under side of the envelope, support cabins, motors, crew. The rigid (Zeppelin) type of ship has a complete skeleton of struts and girders, with hoops articulated laterally inside its spine and ribs to form separate gas chambers when covered with fabric inside as well...
...been floating lazily above the garage, was approached yesterday by several University students being initiated to a fraternity. The balloon had already been cut loose, and was, so it is reported, to be taken to the tower of Memorial Hall, when the prompt action of a mechanic foiled the blimp burglars. While he was getting help, the trespassers got rid of the evidence by the simple expedient of letting go of their prize. They made good their escape, and detectives employed by the Harvard Square Garage have failed to find any trace of either the balloon or the perpetrators...
...orient ourselves. The street cars thunder past every minute or two, and conversation on Massachusetts Avenue is impossible due to their flat-wheeled discord. The chance of meeting a violent death from automobiles every time we go to class has become common-place, and only a falling blimp or an earthquake can now thrill us. If the purpose of life be considered as a preparation for the hereafter, we are rapidly acquiring the proper nonchalance toward the transition...
...will start on June 17, probably from Boston. This trip will assume the character of an international race, for at approximately the same time, expeditions to the pole will start under the British and Norwegian flags. The Norwegian explorers will go in airplanes and the English group in a blimp, while Captain MacMillan will make his journey with two ships, escorted by "amphibian" airplanes...