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    A non-rigid airship, commonly called a blimp (/blɪmp/), is an airship (dirigible) without an internal structural framework or a keel. Unlike semi-rigid...
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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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    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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    to be considered the A class Blimp. The B-class blimp, for which 20 were built for patrols during World War I. The C-class blimp, 10 were built near the...
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  • B class (diesel), an Australian diesel locomotive B-class blimp, airships operated by the United States Navy B-segment, a European vehicle size class...
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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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    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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    L-8 (redirect from Ghost Blimp)
    later renamed America and popularly known as the "Ghost Blimp", was a United States Navy L-class airship whose two crewmen disappeared over the Pacific...
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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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    (GR.III/MR.III) 70-75 (10MR/MP) Avro Shackleton UK 1949 retired 185 B class blimp USA 1917 retired 20 BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4 UK 2004 cancelled 2010 9...
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  • open-reel videotape format Type B plug (see also NEMA connector) Curtiss-built B-type, a type of B class blimp LGOC B-type, a model of double-decker bus...
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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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    production for World War I (WWI), alphabetical class letters were adopted starting with the B-class blimp, with individual aircraft identified by a suffixed...
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    United States Navy airfield from 1917 to 1922. It was first established as a blimp base during World War I. It was located in Chatham, Massachusetts. The base...
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  • blimp DN-1 May 23 – Sopwith Dolphin May 24 – B-1, the first U.S. Navy B-class blimp Siemens-Schuckert D.II Sopwith Cuckoo Thomas-Morse S-4 June 14 – Nieuport...
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    Taylor, 2001, p.254 Swanborough, 1976, p.536 Andrews, C. F. and Morgan, E. B. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London: Putnam, 1988. ISBN 0-85177-815-1. Bowers...
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    the painful process; he devised a microphone boom and a soundproof camera blimp. He also popularized the camera crane. His first three sound films, Dynamite...
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    PRDM1 (redirect from Blimp-1)
    1, or B 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...
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    Airship (category EngvarB from June 2025)
    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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    cockpit. The aircraft's pilot returned him safely to base. B-1, the first U.S. Navy B-class blimp took flight. Convicted murderer Arthur Warren Waite was...
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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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    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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    DN-1 (redirect from DN-1-Class Blimp)
    management. The subsequent B, C, and D-Class airships were quite successful. After its demise the DN-1 came to be considered the A class. Such designation was...
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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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    Plasma cell (redirect from Plasma B cell)
    plasma cell. Differentiation of mature B cells into plasma cells is dependent upon the transcription factors Blimp-1/PRDM1, BCL6, and IRF4. Unlike their...
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  • The UConn Lumpy was a blimp designed, built, and flown by students at the University of Connecticut in 1975. The airship was built by five University...
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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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    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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  • Aircraft Company DN-1 Airship/Blimp Connecticut Aircraft Company A-class Blimp Connecticut Aircraft Company B-class Blimp (Clifford Condit & Gus Palmquist...
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