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Blimps over Boston!

Roving UHub photographer Ted Schwartzberg looked up late yesterday afternoon for Boston's first ever blimp parade - featuring the Hood, DirectTV and MetLife blimps in a grand procession of blimpiness (maybe next year they can have blimp races).

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Its like Fringe

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Interestingly, Boston was under the flightpath of the Hindenberg, which made a dozen or so Atlantic crossings in 1936 and one in 1937. There are also photos of the ill-fated Zeppelin over Worcester and Framingham.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5068/5683873803_02f2110fb5_z.jpg

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I wondered what that was. Seriously, blimp parade?

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It's like that commercial during Sox games that show Wally and Charlie at games - large objects of unusual size just like to pal around.

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Charlie looks like he would be heading to a Braves game though.... ( his hat is an old one ,thus
the epoch of , http://boston-braves.com/ )

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So many possible responses to that, Adam, and all of them tasteless.

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More better ?
In honor of the pitching duo, Boston Post sports editor Gerald V. Hern wrote this poem which the popular media eventually condensed to "Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain":[9]

First we'll use Spahn
then we'll use Sain
Then an off day
followed by rain
Back will come Spahn
followed by Sain
And followed
we hope
by two days of rain.

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Please explain what you mean. Think you are seeing something that is not there, or you hate the National League.

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Naval Air Station South Weymouth, was an operational United States Navy airfield from 1942 to 1997 in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. It was first established as a regular Navy blimp base during World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_South_Weymouth

Nice story and pics @
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/MA/Airfields_MA_Boston_SE.html#weymouth

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I actually thought this was kind of cool. When do you ever get to see multiple blimps flying in formation?

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Can't believe I missed this!

UHub: #1 in Storrowings, shootings, space savers, AND blimps!

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convention looking for last years Red Sox.

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but blimps.

A dirigible has a rigid frame (like the Hindenburg). A blimp is just a big gas bag, with no internal structure.

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Hydrogen is our friend , but you have to be careful. Helium is our friend too. but high maintenance!

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to use helium, which was only available from the United States at the time. However, thanks to Hitler, we refused to sell it to the Zeppelin Company. So the ship was redesigned to use hydrogen instead.

Of course, the principal reason for the Hindenburg disaster, which was not known until many years later, was due to the reflective coating that the Zeppelin company used on the ship. A new formulation not used on previous airships, the skin was "doped" with what was effectively liquid thermite. When the mooring lines were dropped, it caused a static discharge to go through the frame of the ship. Arcing across frame components caused the thermite dope on the skin to ignite. The intense heat created by this external fire eventually caused the gas bags containing the hydrogen to explode.

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Indeed , hydrogen is very tricky to with , static electricity is no friend. Grounding cables are our friends!

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A mention of big gas bags with no internal structure on an internet blog/chat site.

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Nothing against the guy, but you can't leave a possible insult like that just sitting around without someone shooting back "you're a big bag of gas with no internal structure."

Now, if you'll excuse me. I have to step away from the computer. My head is killing me.

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wide open for that one.

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alert.

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The slowest dogfight in history.

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must be embarrased.

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Never watched a vice presidential debate before?

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Actually they're rehearsing for the invasion.

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