Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Tige was holding on to one of the J-3's ropes when the blimp took off on a practice voyage. Tige's jaws were clamped bulldoggedly; he soared aloft. Valiantly, for five minutes, he clawed space and the yielding rope for a foothold. At 400 ft. of altitude, his jaws relaxed and he plunged downward, spinning, and smashed his life out in a forest of scrub pine and sand...
...paid $600,000 to see West Point play Annapolis on a sunny afternoon in Manhattan, first Army-Navy game since 1927. Army's attack functioned smartly and the Navy backs could not move far when they had the ball, which was not often. But Navy's Captain Blimp Bowstrom was punting perfectly and the big Navy line always held when it had to. For three periods both teams played hard, tense, defensive football. Then came a play on which Navy overshifted a little, and Army Halfback Ray Stecker cut over to the short side with pretty interference...
...trial flight Capt. Heinen had landed his blimp in 46 sec. He was planning to make the gondola detachable from the bag, for operation on earth as an automobile. At the end of the flying season, the owner might deflate the bag, store it in his garage...
...Blimping. Like a windstreamed globule of silver, the Goodyear-Zeppelin baby blimp Mayflower floated down upon the afterdeck of the liner Bremen as it approached New York harbor last week. Into the gondola stepped Goodyear President Paul Weeks Litchfield to be borne to Grand Central Air Terminal, thence to his Manhattan hotel, two hours ahead of other Bremen passengers. Since 1925 when the first was built, the Goodyear blimps (Pilgrim, Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Vigilant, Defender) have advertised the company by flying about the country...
Many and potent are the stories of the "Caterpillars." In 1919, the blimp Wingfoot Express flew over Chicago on a good-will tour of inspection. Directly over the business section, one of her motors backfired, flames licked open the hydrogen-filled bag. In an instant, the peaceful scene changed to a holocaust. Four of the five passengers jumped with parachutes. The fifth, his harness tangled, fumbled and fumbled with it as the white-hot wreckage carried him to death. The flames ignited the parachute of one of the jumpers. He dropped straight to destruction. The other three landed. One died...