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Blimp can refer to:

  • a non-rigid airship as opposed to a rigid airship (e.g. Zeppelin)
  • a slang term for a person considered to be conservative due to ignorance, after the cartoon character Colonel Blimp

Every year blimps kill the total number of one amercans per year. If you ever see a blimp, you must immediatly take cover. The blimp could explode, an parts of it could hit your house. Some places that are good places to take cover, are under your bed, in you closet, behind you couch, or even in you car. You decide. Now remember, stay safe. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Airship. ... Construction of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 1923, showing the framework of a rigid airship. ... LZ127 Graf Zeppelin, one of the two zeppelins that carried passengers from Germany to the United States. ... The cartoonist David Low first drew Colonel Blimp for Lord Beaverbrooks London Evening Standard in the 1930s: pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotypically English. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...


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The Goodyear Blimps || Spirit of Goodyear, Spirit of America and Spirit of Innovation (347 words)
For 80 years, Goodyear blimps have adorned the skies as very visible corporate symbols of the tire and rubber company that began operations in 1898.
Often used as convoy escorts, the blimps were able to look down on the ocean surface and spot a rising submarine and radio its position to the convoy's surface ships.
In the United States it operates three well-recognized blimps: the Spirit of Goodyear, based in Akron, Ohio; the Spirit of America, based in Carson, California; and the Spirit of Innovation, in Pompano Beach, Florida.
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BLIMP covers all publications related to the fast-growing field of biomedical literature and text mining.
BLIMP is committed to both coverage and relevance.
It started with a large collection of publications, and constantly relies on authors to notify BLIMP through the submission form about their newly accepted papers.
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