Word: nonrigid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some new answers were on the way. The initials were K2, PC and PT. With enough of these the U.S. could absolutely dominate all of the nearby Atlantic, and the main Atlantic Fleet could concentrate on the farther reaches. Kas are blimps, nonrigid airships, capable of patrolling an area of 2,000 square miles of ocean every twelve hours. When the U.S. gets enough blimps nosing out of bases up & down the Atlantic Coast, no submarine will dare venture in daylight within blimp-range along the entire coast. The U.S. Navy, never a small operator, planned a total...
...apostle of lighter-than-aircraft, Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, last week had hope of a new U.S. air fleet. At the Navy's LTA station at Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought Captain Rosendahl. In Lakehurst's dwindling complement were three aging tactical blimps (including two Army...