Blimp in flight

[boantrac]

Goodyear blimp in flight...

[Dalreg]

I have looked for blimps before and have never found one in flight. Good job!

[SpiderX22]

Add it to the database..thats an awesome find.

[Tom Baldwin]

Goodyear blimp in flight...
Great find!
Here (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6046&highlight=baloon) is a discussion on blimps from last February.
I've updated my Airships.kmz, including adding your find, and posted it below.

[TaS60]

Don't know if you noticed, but the airport to the SW of the airship has a Good Year hangar on its western side.

[old shape]

<Pedantic>
A blimp is a non-rigid balloon, usually tethered to the ground.
An Airship has a structure within it, like all the ones in the kmz's above.
The most famous blimps were used as barrage balloons around the UK in WW2. Tethered, and with nets hung between them to stop doodle-bug bombs and low flying German raiders.
However, as our language has developed (Ruined by people that have no flair for tradition and/or respect for the root of the words :eek: ) the word blimp can now be used for a rigid airship up to 1.5million cubic feet. That's pretty big, a 60 feet diameter balloon would be 530 feet long. (ish)
<Pedant off>

[Appletom]

@ old shape:

Well, I had to look "pedantic" up in the dictionary. I like the word, it describes me sometimes :hair:

Thanks for the post and lessons learned!

[BMDenver]

Old Shape -

An airship is a lighter-than-air craft that powered and steerable. A blimp is a non-rigid airship (Goodyear, etc). A dirigible is commonly a rigid airship (Zeppelins, etc).

The tethered balloons you have seen from WWII, and still in use today are commonly known as aerostats or moored balloons (although, technically, the word "aerostat" can refer to all lighter-than-air craft).

As for the root of the word "blimp" which you seem to feel has been "ruined" by the masses, please enlighten me. Because as far as all my research has shown, no one knows the origin of the word, although there are a few weird theories.

Please get your facts straight before attempting to inform the rest of us.

[Tom Baldwin]

Please get your facts straight before attempting to inform the rest of us.
Awsome first post! Welcome to the club, BMDenver.

[old shape]

Old Shape -

An airship is a lighter-than-air craft that powered and steerable. A blimp is a non-rigid airship (Goodyear, etc). A dirigible is commonly a rigid airship (Zeppelins, etc).
My apologies, I got to thinking the Goodyears and others shown had a structure within.
The tethered balloons you have seen from WWII, and still in use today are commonly known as aerostats or moored balloons (although, technically, the word "aerostat" can refer to all lighter-than-air craft).

They are "Now" known as aerostats. They were blimps at the time of the war.
As for the root of the word "blimp" which you seem to feel has been "ruined" by the masses, please enlighten me.

A blimp, as mentioned, was a gas filled, tethered, non-steerable "Kite" balloon for observation or hanging nets from. In latter days they have allowed this to be expanded to cover steerable gas filled structureless ships up to 1.5M cubic feet. So, at 1.6M it becomes an airship DoH!
Because as far as all my research has shown, no one knows the origin of the word, although there are a few weird theories.
Indeed many, I stick the the likelyhood that a fat man was called a blimp pre Victorian times. The blimps of WW2 looked like this.
Please get your facts straight before attempting to inform the rest of us.
I admit that the Goodyear error was a mistake, but in the 60's/70's/80's and 90's, they were known as the Goodyear Airships.....and I'm sure the early Goodyear ones, when Zeppelin was forced to hand over the plans to the Americans, had a structure.

The word has been ruined by the same masses that invented "Pre-order". You Order or you don't! You don't pre-fire a gun!
There was of course irony in my original post, but to understand it, you probably need to watch and understand the Borat movie...."Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"


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