Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks for the credit line in your report, "Blimp Fleet" (TIME, Jan. 19). Next to having Hitler say that he hates me for it, I get the biggest bang out of your admission that I have been right, even if only once. Ickes Marches...
...World War I, the blimp was widely used to combat the sub. It protected the coasts of England and France, was the first thing that greeted the A.E.F. transports as they headed into European ports. Although the British had 190 blimps in service, they lost only a scattered few, even though they were filled with highly inflammable hydrogen...
Before the end of 1942, seven other blimp squadrons will take to the air. On the East Coast they will be based at Lakehurst, South Weymouth, Mass., Elizabeth City, N.C., and at a spot still undesignated in Florida; on the West Coast, at California's Moffett Field, near Sunnyvale...
...blimps of the new squadron are about three times as large as the familiar advertising type. They are 250 ft. long, inflated with 416,000 cubic feet of helium, can cruise 1,500 miles at a speed of 55 m.p.h. As a submarine pursuer the blimp has many an advantage over the plane. It can hover motionless over its prey, move along with it constantly whatever its speed, fly below ceiling in all but the foulest weather...
Thrice-burnt by its disastrous experiences with the Shenandoah, .the Macon, the Akron, the U.S. Navy has dreaded lighter-than-air craft. Nevertheless, a little group of enthusiasts, led by Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, plugged persistently for a whopping airship program. The new blimp squadrons are the first reward of their efforts...