U. s. navy blimps learn new role for sea rescues
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U. s. navy blimps learn new role for sea rescues
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U.s. navy blimps learn new role for sea rescues
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with the aid of new air-
ship inventions, U. 8. Navy
blimps can now “anchor”
100 feet above the sea, and
pick up ill sailors or victims
of shipwreck. A circular
disk called a “drogue,™
dropped into the sea
at the end of a cable,
keeps the craft's nose
pointed steadily into
the wind. Meanwhile
the blimp is kept
from rising or drop-
ping suddenly by
counteracting its
buoyancy with a sea
anchor, a canvas bag
that fills with 1,000
pounds of sea water
when let down from
the gondola. Rescued
persons may climb a
rope ladder to the
cabin of the airship,
or be hoisted aboard
with rubber life rafts
lowered to them. In
the accompanying
photographs, naval
blimps and Coast
Guardsmen are dem-
onstrating the novel
rescue method off
Point Pleasant, N. J.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1940-03
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134
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 136, n. 3, 1940
