blimp
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
blimp see airship .
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Preparing a blimp for takeoff at Manassas Regional Airport ... metal mast -- and one minor injury -- the blimp was ready for takeoff. A crew chief yelled ... sometimes, are beleaguered or endangered. A blimp that Gary Fielding was baby-sitting last ...
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... basketball teams visiting the Bradley Center were blimp- envious. Team representatives kept asking Fisher where they could get a blimp, and Fisher kept referring them to the manufacturer ... your head in a sports arena these days without a blimp sailing past. Blimpworks recently delivered a 22-foot bobcat- ...
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Memories tether generations of family to the Goodyear blimp
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Aboard a blimp, you see the upside of Down Under.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Personal blimp sails over fields of Amherst
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TAKING FLIGHT See the blimp in action at boston.com/globe. AMHERST ... less power?" he said. "The answer is a blimp." Nachbar's solution could be seen soaring ... cloudless morning last month: a 102-foot blimp designed with coinventor Michael Kuehlmuss ...
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FOR BLIMPS: NEW MISSION 9/11 TAKES AIRSHIPS BACK TO SPYING ROLE.(LOCAL)
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... HAMPTON THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT From the Fujifilm blimp about 500 feet above the Pasquotank County ... looked like blue jeans. He looked up at the blimp just before he entered. If this short afternoon ... successful. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Fujifilm blimp based at the World War II blimp hangar ...
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&type=1 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Get the message? Sometimes a blimp is just a blimp, but it's usually a floating billboard, so a reporter invited to fly one becomes a cog in the publicity machine.(Suburban Living)
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Look! Up in the sky! It's a blimp! It's a dirigible! It's, it's ... a cynical ... about something as harmless and cute as a blimp - especially someone who got to guide ... something called broadband services - has a blimp in the first place. Doesn't it seem like ...
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FIVE THINGS: About that blimp.
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The Blimp Over the Bastille; In Paris, An Eye in the Sky, & Adieu to the Revolution
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Akron, Ohio-Based Goodyear to Replace Local Blimp.
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