Word: nonrigid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factory superintendent and built Goodyear's first tire with his own hands. Before the War he persuaded Goodyear's Founder-President Frank A. Seiberling to build spherical balloons for the U. S. air services. Before, during and since the War, Mr. Litchfield built sausage balloons and nonrigid dirigibles (blimps; for the Army and Navy. In 1924 he and Edward G. Wilmer, Mr. Seiberling's successor as Goodyear president, were at Friedrichshafen, inspecting the Zeppelin works. They at once made a deal with Dr. Eckener for exclusive North American manufacturing rights. Hence the formation of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp...
...Airship, nonrigid: An airship whose form is maintained by internal pressure in gas bags...
Blimp Jinx. At Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex., the nonrigid dirigible TC-10 243 of the U. S. Army was ready to take the air. But one of its anchors stuck, causing a cable to rip a hole in the gas bag. Unbalanced, the dirigible floundered stupidly, smashed its gondola (cabin) against the ground, ripped its gas bag to shreds, let loose 200,000 cubic feet of valuable helium. The crew of seven escaped unhurt. Major Harold A. Strauss, who was in command of this unfortunate blimp, recalled that another blimp of his had exploded on the same spot...
...Norge's Spitzbergen to Teller flight of 2,700 mi. is the longest successful nonstop flight for nonrigid dirigibles. The French Dixmade had covered over 5,000 mi. and weathered an African hurricane, when she was lost with all hands in the Mediterranean...
...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...