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“Then they’ll open a 25-foot-long seam on top of the envelope to release nearly 200,000 cubic feet of helium.”
Too bad they can’t reclaim it somehow.
I have read that they are going to stop flying blimps. They are switching to what they call rigid (Zeppelin) airships, but which strike me as closer to semi-rigid (Norge, Italia).
Oh my! I fly over it all the time. It is on the 405 and 110 frwy’s. : (
Guess it’s having a bad year.
You know you are getting old when all the things that were familiar to you are being put away.........How many times I passed that thing tethered next to the freeway at night.
I still remember when they had a blimp base in Houston right off of I-45. Now, it is a Lowe’s and some other stores. Probably disappeared around 1997.
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In my weird imaginary world, they would decommission a blimp by pulling out the stopper at the rear end, causing it to rocket uncontrollably all over the place with the gas rushing out until finally it collapsed in a heap on the ground...
I used to live on the Tustin Air Base when my dad was in the Marines back in the early ‘70s. We called the base LTA (lighter than air). The Goodyear Blimp made regular appearances at the hangars for maintenance. I got to get up close to it a few times in the hangar....it’s a massive ship.
Almost got to ride it a few times, but it was always too windy on ride day....now I’ll never get a chance.....
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GEORGE: So I saw that new movie about the Hindenburg.
ELAINE: Oh, yeah. What’s that called?
GEORGE: Blimp: The Hindenburg Story.
JERRY: How was it?
GEORGE: I found it morose. Why dwell on these negative themes?
JERRY: Yeah. They should make a movie about all the Hindenburg flights that made it.
GEORGE: Anyway, right in the middle, the ship blows up— burning debris, bodies falling— and then just as this eerie silence settles over the airfield, I yelled out, “That’s gotta hurt!”
There’s something poetic about the Spirit of America being torn apart for trinkets and recycling.