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Anonymous
ITT: airships, blimps, etc, IRL, preferably old black and white.

extra points for docking, explosions, or city vistas.

GO!
>> Anonymous
in before hindenberg.
>> Anonymous
In before I use the restroom.
>> Anonymous
bumpidybumpy
>> Anonymous
In after I used the restroom.
>> Anonymous
in after your mom!
>> Anonymous
>>204723

Now that just makes no sense. Stop being confusing.
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>>204666
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>>204723
reported for bumping your own thread
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I wonder why we dont use blimps anymore


stupid germans.
>> Anonymous
R101 (in the first pic) wasn't the one who fall near Beauvais (in France) ?
and it was british
>> Anonymous
i haven't read the 3 first posts, is it too late to in b4 hindenburg?
>> Anonymous
>>204801
Hindenburg.

Nuff' said.
>> Anonymous
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zrs4.htm
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US pre-WW2 Navy recon airship, the USS Akron, the world's mightiest airship, had her permanent home at Sunnyvale, California.
The Navy bought this, and one other --the USS Macon, to fly high over the oceans to scout for the fleet. They had biplanes (Curtis F9C-2 Sparrowhawks) housed within them that could launch and get recovered by retractable trapeze. Unfortunately, both these giant dirigibles crashed in storms in the mid-1930s and the project was abandoned.
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The Navy had build gigantic hangars to hold these airships. One of these still stands at the naval air station at Moffett Field, in Mountain View, California. The other was at Lakehurst, New Jersey. It seems that they can never tear the giant hangar down at Moffet Field because it was constructed with so much asbestos (I don't know what happened to the one in Jersey). I lived in San Jose until the 1993, and would see the Navy P-3 Orion anti-submarine patrol planes flying to and from Moffet Field all the time. In the early 1990s, Moffet Field was finally closed down and turned into Ames Research Center. The giant hangar was turned into a NASA museum.
Pic: 'Hangar One' at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California.
>> Bat Guano
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Here's the first flight of an airship, Henri Giffard's steam airship, 1852.
>> Bat Guano
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German WW1 Zeppelin over a battleship squadron.

For a time, war Zeps were effective bombers because they had very long range, could carry a substantial payload of incendiary bombs, and had a ceiling higher than the Allied fighters. But Allied fighters were developed to fly up to higher altitude and were armed with anti-balloon rockets (they looked like big bottle rockets with long stabilizing sticks) and tracer/incendiary bullets for their machine-guns. Apparently, you could riddle the hell out of these airships with regular machine-gun fire and that would just pierce the gas bags with tiny holes, but would not ignite the hydrogen gas inside. You usually needed tracer ammo, leaving a streak of burning phosphorous, to ignite these things.
>> Bat Guano
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German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129).
>> Bat Guano
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And here's the Hindenburg, blowing the hell up over Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937.
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"blimpin' ain't easy" ~Hindenberg
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uss macon in hangar
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uss akron over san francisco
>> Anonymous
>>204894

Such a beautiful ship, brought down not by its use of hydrogen to lift it but by the fact that its paint was essentially solid rocket fuel. It was an explosion waiting to happen.
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>>204906
Tell me about it.
Count Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin (1838-1917), inventor of the airship.
Zeppelin spent nearly a decade developing the dirigible. The first of many rigid dirigibles, called zeppelins in his honor, was completed in 1900. He made the first directed flight on July 2, 1900. In 1910, a zeppelin provided the first commercial air service for passengers. By his death in 1917, he had built a zeppelin fleet, some of which were used to bomb London during World War I. However, they were too slow and explosive a target in wartime and too fragile to withstand bad weather. They were found to be vulnerable to antiaircraft fire, and about 40 were shot down over London. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/Zeppelin/DI48.htm
>> Anonymous
>>204910
there's some sexual innuendo in that pic waiting to be found...

>>204924
lol - what a bunch of dumbasses
>> Anonymous
>>204928

>>lol - what a bunch of dumbasses

i'm sure you wouldnt do any better
>> Anonymous
In before I use the bathroom day 2.
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In after I use the bathroom day 2.
>> Anonymous
kirov reporting
>> Anonymous
>>204930
Excuse me but how long was it known that hydrogen is (in)flammable and helium not? Putting the lives of people at risk like they did is just retarded.
>> Anonymous
>>204889
i don't habeeb it, you forgot the hangars at mcas tustin!
>> Anonymous
>>205087
Uhh, gasoline is flammible, and it's in automobiles.
>> Anonymous
>>204889
I live 20 minutes from Lakehurst. Hangar's still there and they use it for event space... my county's elementary schools used to go there for a yearly convocation... it's hyuge
>> Anonymous
>>205087

... Excepting that the Hindenburg was designed to use helium for lift, and the world's leading supplier of helium (the US) declined to export it.
>> Anonymous
>>205188
An automobile doesn't explode or burst into flames when you shoot at it.

>>205198
Still, using hydrogen is insane.
>> Anonymous
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USS Macon wreck site, debris field A including her four Sparrowhawks.
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And debris field B, including her mooring assemblies, condensers, and and a helium tank.
>> Anonymous
>>205311
>>205313
Can you get pics of the RMS Titanic debris field, please?
>> Anonymous
>>205356

I'll see what I can find.