Leonard Hatred 1:47 Sat Jun 16
Let's talk about AIRSHIPS
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Are there any in use nowadays?
Not BLIMPS,I mean proper airships.
Fascinating things.
Just been watching some Hindenburg footage. Floating a hydrogen-filled balloon across the Atlantic. What the FUCK were they thinking? Health & Safety would be all over that these days.
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Steve P
6:32 Mon Jun 18
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Moon forecast that Jimmy Page's band would 'go down like a lead Zeppelin'.
The most celebrated use of the term is the part played in the naming of the English heavy-metal band Led Zeppelin. The story goes that Jimmy Page had completed a Scandinavian tour with the New Yardbirds - an impromptu band that was formed from the popular rapidly disintegrating Yardbirds. Keith Moon is reputed to have said the new band would go down like a lead balloon - some reports say go over like a lead balloon (or zeppelin). Moon is said to have borrowed the term from John Entwistle, who had previously used it to describe bad gigs. Moon and Entwistle, both being English, would have been more likely to have used the English 'go down' version. The details of this are difficult to verify as the anecdotal comment wasn't recorded or put into print at the time and as Moon and Entwistle are deceased. Jimmy Page has confirmed the essence of the story in several subsequent interviews (although, as we all know, 'If you can remember the 1960s, you weren't really there.').
Led ZeppelinThe irony and the association with the heavy metal lead was too good to miss for an aspiring heavy metal band. They even made sure that people got the point that they were referring to the metal by changing the spelling to Led and avoiding any possible mispronunciation as lead - as in leader (reputedly at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant).
Clears that up nicely.
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Leonard Hatred
2:25 Mon Jun 18
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Bumping this thread because airships are interesting.
FUCK OFF
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Monk~koknee
3:55 Sun Jun 17
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And hence no stock market floatation
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Westham67
3:46 Sun Jun 17
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They are susceptible to inflation
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Monk~koknee
3:44 Sun Jun 17
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They are blown up out of all proportion.
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Leonard Hatred
3:39 Sun Jun 17
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EJ
They didn't want Zeppelin to have access to helium cos they thought Hitler was up to no good.
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Side of Ham
6:02 Sat Jun 16
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Millwall like them.
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CrowleyHammer
5:51 Sat Jun 16
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron_(ZRS-4)
AIRSHIPS that launched and recovered PLANES.
The pilots had to climb down from the airship to a plane dangling below the fucking thing. I saw a documentary on these a few years back, fascinating,
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Pig__Destroyer
5:48 Sat Jun 16
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HAIRSHIPS
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eastend joker
5:01 Sat Jun 16
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Pedant so the septics fucked these up aswell as concorde ?
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Pringle
3:15 Sat Jun 16
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My dad (retired) travelled the world building and maintaining the airships you see now.
He worked for Airship Industries and there are around 15 commercial ships that have gondola`s that can carry passengers around the world.
He also built the "blimps" that you often see over sporting venues, his most iconic was the Fuji blimp seen first at the Seoul Olympics.
I was quite fortunate to have a trip in one when they built one at the old RAF base at Cardington in Bedfordshire and it was brilliant.
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gph
2:50 Sat Jun 16
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If someone talked about a hydrodynamic ship, I'd think they where talking about a simplified mathematical model of a real ship, or a material model of a real ship used in a test tank.
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fordstar
2:43 Sat Jun 16
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Leonard Hatred 2:27 Sat Jun 16
the Carlton Cole of the skies.
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The Prawn
2:40 Sat Jun 16
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So if something was HYDRODYNAMIC it would have to have an ENGINE of sorts, like?
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gph
2:33 Sat Jun 16
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Streamlined.
Hydrodynamic means related to the science of... hydrodynamics, or worked by the force of water (as in hydrodynamic power generation).
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Pedant
2:32 Sat Jun 16
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Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen because the Americans would not let them have helium (which it controlled the world supply of at the time).
It was originally designed to use helium.
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Leonard Hatred
2:31 Sat Jun 16
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I suppose it would be Hydro-dynamic,yeah.
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The Prawn
2:29 Sat Jun 16
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On a non related topic, can you tell me what the WATER version of being 'aero dynamic' would be? Is it HYDRO DYNAMIC or have I made that up? This was a matter of HOT debate at the urinal last night.
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Leonard Hatred
2:27 Sat Jun 16
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I wish they were still in use. They just looked great.
Fucking enormous big beasts lumbering about in the sky.
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gph
2:22 Sat Jun 16
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There have been several attempts to get the money together to move non-urgent cargo cheaply by airship (helium filled), I seem to remember from the days when I read New Scientist regularly.
I don't think any have been successful.
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Bromley Reject
2:17 Sat Jun 16
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what was the one the Italians EXPLORED the Arctic in ?
The Norge or something ? Fucking brilliant that was.....until it crashed.
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