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    K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy. These blimps...
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    The F class of US Navy blimps comprised a single airship, built during World War I by Goodyear as one of a group of three small blimps offered to the US...
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    C class blimp 1918–1919 D class blimp 1920–1924 F class blimp/Type FB 1918–1923 Goodyear Type AD 1925–1931 G class blimp 1935–19? H class blimp 1921–1923...
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    D-class blimps were built in the 1920s, the last was retired in 1924. Only one E-class blimp was built in 1918 and retired in 1924. One F-class blimp was...
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    Akron, Ohio built the M-class blimp for the United States Navy as the follow-on to the K-class anti-submarine warfare blimp used during World War II...
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    The G-Class Blimps were a series of non-rigid airships (blimps) used by the United States Navy. In 1935, instead of developing a new design airship, the...
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    The L-class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II. In the mid-1930s, the Goodyear Aircraft Company built...
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    The D class blimp was a patrol airship used by the US Navy in the early 1920s. The D-type blimps were slightly larger than the C-type and had many detail...
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    The J-class blimps were non-rigid airships designed by the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in the early 1920s for the US...
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    The C-class blimp was a patrol airship developed by the US Navy near the end of World War I, a systematic improvement upon the B-type which was suitable...
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    A class blimp (experimental) B class blimp (patrol & training) C class blimp (patrol) D class blimp (patrol) E class blimp (trainer) F class blimp (trainer)...
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    engines powered the N-Class blimps. An initial contract was awarded to the Goodyear Aircraft Company for the prototype N-class blimp in the late 1940s, with...
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    1993, including intellectual property surrounding the now-retired Goodyear Blimp designs (GZ-20 and GZ-22). While owning the designs, Lockheed Martin does...
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    The H class blimp was an observation airship built for the U.S. Navy in the early 1920s. The original "H" Class design of 1919 was for a twin engined...
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    The E class of US Navy blimps comprised a single airship, built during World War I by Goodyear as one of a group of three small blimps offered to the US...
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    The B class blimps were patrol airships operated by the United States Navy during and shortly after World War I. The Navy had learned a great deal from...
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    (Submarine Scout or Sea Scout) class airships were simple, cheap and easily assembled small non-rigid airships or "blimps" that were developed as a matter...
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    The Goodyear GZ-20/20A was a class of non-rigid airship or blimp introduced in 1969 by The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in the United States as its...
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  • K-1 (airship) (redirect from K-1 Blimp)
    was an experimental blimp designed by the United States Navy in 1929. The K-1 was not the prototype of the later K-class blimps. Due to the inability...
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    Airship (section Blimp)
    non-rigid, semi-rigid and rigid airships. Non-rigid airships, often called "blimps", rely solely on internal gas pressure to maintain the envelope shape. Semi-rigid...
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    designations. Until the 1940s, Navy blimps were grouped into classes by nominal power and size; within each class, individual aircraft often had significant...
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    Prisoner. The 1977 John Frankenheimer film Black Sunday features the Goodyear Blimp as the vehicle which Black September terrorists plan to hijack and attack...
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    Machinist's Mate Second Class, US Navy, World War Two youtube, Tustin Hangars - "Titans of History" Documentary youtube, Wwii Blimp / Airship Operations...
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    DN-1 (redirect from DN-1-Class Blimp)
    Connecticut Aircraft Company in the design of DN-1. The Chief Engineer was James F. Boyle and the Production Manager was J.J. DeLunay. The civilian inspector...
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  • partial list of airship accidents. It includes both rigid airships and blimps, which operated differently from one another. Not included on this list...
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  • airships were built for the U.S. Navy 133 K-class blimps 10 L-class blimps 7 G-class blimps 4 M-class blimps As well as planned and new construction, some...
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    helicopters, the Agusta-Bell AB.102 and the Sikorsky H-19, and a class of airship, the K-class blimp. In 2016, it received designation as a Historic Engineering...
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    balloon to fly around the world non-stop Gondola C-49 of Goodyear Blimp Columbia (N4A), class GZ-20, and Gondola of Goodyear Pilgrim A Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka...
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    airships and balloons since the early 1900s, the first Goodyear advertising blimp flew in 1925. Today, it is one of the most recognizable advertising icons...
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    PRDM1 (redirect from Blimp-1)
    lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1 (BLIMP-1), is a protein in humans encoded by the gene PRDM1 located on chromosome 6q21. BLIMP-1 is considered a 'master regulator'...
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