Blimp "Rescues" Man at Sea on Raft "Stretcher"
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How disabled persons can be rescued from the sea by a blimp was demonstrated in tests conducted by United States navy blimp J-4 ten miles off New Jersey's coast. It was proved that men can be lifted aboard a blimp either from the deck of a boat or from the water’s surface. In performing the “rescue” an inflated rubber life raft, like those carried by seaplanes, served as a stretcher to haul the man safely into the blimp hovering about fifty feet above. To anchor the ship a drogue, a circular metal disk, is dropped by a cable until it sinks twenty-five feet below the surface.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Blimp "Rescues" Man at Sea on Raft "Stretcher"
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Blimp "Rescues" Man at Sea on Raft "Stretcher"
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-03
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, v. 73, n. 3, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 373
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
