OUT OF THE PAST, DIRIGIBLE MAY REJOIN U.S. ARSENAL.(LOCAL)

From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: May 18, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: GUY FRIDDELL

How elevating it is to read that the dirigible is coming back.

Its main purpose in the 1920s and 1930s was to fly over schoolyards and excite the children. We were let out of class to watch the great 800-foot-long, silver-skinned airship fill the sky as it thundered above us.

All 500 of us were standing, eyes fixed in the direction from which the phenomenon was supposed to appear.

Suddenly someone would shout at the...

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