Developed during WW1, a blimp is a floating airship without an internal supporting framework, or a keel. More info
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fr in sc
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That's a dirigible, not a blimp. It's one of the handful the US Navy had in the twenties and early thirties, used as scouts for the fleet and even as flying aircraft carriers (they could stow small fighters in the airship and a hook arrangement was used to launch and recover them). One met a violent end in the Atlantic in 1933 with heavy loss of life and the last one crashed off the California coast in '35. This card is circa 1932, not 1940.
And btw, the pictured airship did have an internal framework; US Navy blimps had the control car lying under the middle of the ship, not up front like this one did. See the Hindenburg---same arrangement.
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That's a dirigible, not a blimp. It's one of the handful the US Navy had in the twenties and early thirties, used as scouts for the fleet and even as flying aircraft carriers (they could stow small fighters in the airship and a hook arrangement was used to launch and recover them). One met a violent end in the Atlantic in 1933 with heavy loss of life and the last one crashed off the California coast in '35. This card is circa 1932, not 1940.
And btw, the pictured airship did have an internal framework; US Navy blimps had the control car lying under the middle of the ship, not up front like this one did. See the Hindenburg---same arrangement.
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