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To: CzarNicky

These are Helium-filled dirigibles, not hydrogen-filled dirigibles.

5 posted on 05/01/2004 9:24:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (To increase the power of the State over the individual is a crime against Humanity.)

To: Army Air Corps

15 posted on 05/01/2004 9:36:34 PM PDT by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)

To: Army Air Corps

Blimps ... a gas bag ... no rigid structural members.

Dirigible ... several gas cells ... beacoup rigid structural members.

US Navy ... Blimps - many; Dirigibles - few (USS MACON, ... USS LOS ANGELES (the last - she was scraped).

32 posted on 05/02/2004 5:13:01 AM PDT by jamaksin

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