Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...
Senator Bingham Blimps. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut last week was inspecting the balloon hangars at Langley Field, Va. Came urgent summons to attend the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on the tariff at Washington, 140 miles away. Capt. William J. Flood of the Army Air Corps, who earlier in the year landed a blimp on the roof of the Munitions Building in Washington, offered and proceeded to blimp the senator to "the front door of the capitol," depositing him conveniently in the plaza near the Senate wing. Predicted the most air-conscious senator: "That's the way all congressmen...
...wind rose to a 45 mile-an-hour gale. About midnight the envelope of one Navy blimp began to part. Hastily the rip cord was pulled and a bagful of helium was given to the hungry wind, which dragged the sagging ship 100 yds. and cast the basket damaged to the ground. Toward dawn the nose of the other Navy blimp began to pull away. Hastily another rip cord was pulled, another bagful of helium returned to the elements...
...Eckener plans to pilot the Count Zeppelin to the U. S. and establish a regular trans-Atlantic passenger service, as the culmination of his career. Long before the World War, he worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where...
...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...