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Memorial Day Weekend

GreatMartin @GreatMartin (23670) • Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 25 May 20

Starting raining Friday, and since then, we have had sun showers, light showers, heavy showers, winds and a blimp flying over Fort Lauderdale saluting the First Responders and the lost heroes of too many wars. It is quiet around...

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Inflatable Trump baby to be downed by Trump drones over London!

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5217) • Northampton, England 12 Jul 18

So the problem with Donald Trump to white people is he reminds you who you really are deep inside and that uncomfortable for many. The young and educated deal with that by being left wing and protesting against Trump to rid...

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One tragic accident ends the era of airship travel - the Hindenberg disaster

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381760) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Oct 17

Following on from my discussion about blimps, the ill-fated LZ-129 Hindenberg was a rigid dirigible or airship. In its time, the airship was the fastest and most comfortable way to cross the Atlantic. For over 30 years, tens of...

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Is it a plane? Is it a bird? It's a blimp!

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381760) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Oct 17

While travelling in France and somewhere near Mont-Saint-Michel we saw this blimp. It was advertising L’Archange Crêperie Restaurant. A blimp is an airship or dirigible which does not have an internal framework of a keel....

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Does anyone here remember the Spur Blimp

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111937) • United States 12 Nov 16

How about the Spur drink.This was very popular in the forties. Once or twice a week we will see the Blimp They drop off coupon to get a free drink. This was huge in our time as we look forward. Spur drinks were like a cola if I...

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Who would like te see blimps and drones all over the sky ?

Clateman @Clateman (20) • Grande Prairie, Alberta 26 May 16

Imagine if blimps of every size and shape that lanchappie drones for loading and unloading passages and cargo and are powered by solar energy and only need one person for a whole fleet I think with today's tech it's totally...

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What is a UFO?

josvinod @josvinod (52) • India 20 Jan 09

A UFO is technically an "Unidentified flying object," nothing more nor less. Any object that flies and cannot initially be identified as an airplane, helicopter, blimp, balloon,kite, or any other object that normally flies, is...

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Would you like to travel by airship?

Citizen_Stuart @Citizen_Stuart (2016) 19 May 08

I don't mean a little blimp, I mean if a company built the modern equivalent of one of the great old luxury airliners like the Hindenberg and flew it across the Atlantic or whatever, would you like to book a trip on it? I think it...

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What does the Goodyear Blimp do?

movieman @movieman (77) • United States 8 Apr 08

I just saw the Goodyear blimp floating around yesterday, and I was just wondering if anyone knew what it really did. Does it just float around, or is it's purpose just to advertise Goodyear and provide occasional video?

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Flying Objects and Bug Eyed Monsters?

lena2000 @lena2000 (2392) • Belgium 12 Mar 07

What are you thoughts on such things as Unidentified Flying Objects and Bug Eyed Monsters? Do they exist? Have you seen some? Or is it just a bunch of hooey! I personally have seen a U.F.O. It was in June of 2005. Driving...

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40 years in Aviation

livingtwist @livingtwist (410) • United States 14 Jan 07

I grew up on a small farm in north eastern NC, about 35 miles line of sight of Wright Brothers location of first flight, Kitty Hawk, NC. In my young years we had a Navy blimp base near by and several military...

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The Flying Luxury Hotel

polachicago @polachicago (18716) • United States 6 Jan 07

This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aerocraft, and when it's completed, it will ferry pampered passengers across continents and oceans as they...

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Anyone ever ride in a blimp?

luko4me @luko4me (131) • United States 29 Nov 06

Several times a year the Goodyear blimp flies over our house. I would love to ride in it sometime. Anyone ever ride in one?

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Guess what the Salvation Army does with the stuff they don't sell!!!

Instructor2006 @Instructor2006 (87) • United States 22 Nov 06

All those raggedy clothes and appliances you bring in that u know don't work and clothes with holes in em..etc..they bail..they box em up and sell them to 3rd world distributors..That tv with the blimp in the screen they cut the...

did u know

mygrintha @mygrintha (35) • India 17 Oct 06

Did You Know? · Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. · The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.) · Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing....

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First thing after you awake or waking up

ianlcs @ianlcs (72) • Malaysia 21 Aug 06

What is the first thing after you awake? (i.e: what a great day today, what I plan to do with it) and.. What is the first...

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