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ITT: Epic Airships!
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German Zeppelin airship in flight over the Bodensee, July 4, 1908.
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German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129).
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German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129), blowing the hell up over Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937.
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US Navy airship USS Akron (ZRS-4), made by the Goodyear Zeppelin Company; in 1932 she flew from New Jersey to California for exercises. Made to patrol for long distances, searching for enemy ships. She could launch and recover patrol biplanes in a trapeze mechanism and retract the planes for repair and refueling in small internal hangars in the airship's belly.
Here's the USS Akron with her Curtis F9C-2 Sparrowhawk parasite fighters, over San Francisco.
Sadly, these two US Navy airships crashed in storms in the 1930s, showing their weakness to bad weather. The project was cancelled.
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The USS Macon, sister airship to the Akron, in a hangar.

The USS Macon, was stationed at Moffett Field, in Mountain View, California, from 1933 to 1935. After the airship project was struck, the Navy still had these gigantic hangars to hold them. Way back in grade school (around 30 years ago), I took a school tour of Moffett Field. The guide said that if the hangar doors were closed on foggy mornings, the fog would rise to the roof of the hangar, turn into clouds and then rain in the hangar.
This hangar is too large and is filled with too much asbestos to demolish. last I heard, it got turned into a museum for NASA.
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This is a view of the huge dirigible hangar with doors open at both ends at the NASA Ames Reserach Center, Moffett Field, California. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company under contract to the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center was to use the hangar for construction and assembly of the nation's first nuclear stage rocket engine. Airplanes are on the ground at right, and in the background is San Francisco Bay. The ready-made "factory" structure was erected in 1931- 1933, to house the dirigible ZRS-5 USS Macon, which crashed off the California coast in 1935. It has been used by the Navy for blimps and aircraft. The floor area 1,138 feet by 308 feet, covers over eight acres or enough to hold seven football fields. The height of the hangar is 198 feet, ample for the company to erect the RIET (Reactor-In-Flight Test) stage in an upright position. The program was eventually canceled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffett_Field
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USS Long Cat NCC-9000
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Longcat Sauce plox
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from ffv i believe
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A challenger appears
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One disapears
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>>450349
I think I love you.
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=)
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>>450349

I never get tired of that joke.
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Same cock-sucking shitbag.
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the fact nobody likes you must be vexing sometimes
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A Curtis F9C-2 Sparrowhawk approaching trapeze of USS Macon mother airship, circa 1932.
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A painting of the USS Akron (ZRS-4) 1931 rigid airship, made by the Goodyear Zeppelin Co.
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hey guano, you missed your thread
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What thread?

The N-Class, or as popularly known, the Nan ship, was a line of non-rigid airships built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio for the US Navy. This line of airships was developed through many versions and assigned various designators as the airship designation system changed in the post World War II era. These versions included airships configured for both anti-submarine warfare and airborne early warning (AEW) missions. The initial version, designated ZPN-1, was a follow-on to the M-class blimp for patrol missions. The Nan ship used a significantly larger envelope than the M-ship although their overall lengths were similar. Two Wright radial air-cooled engines powered the N-Class blimps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_class_blimp