The worlds longest airship

Steep said:
Yet there are those (and sorry I did google it) who say that the British never had such a thing as a B-Limp
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Long live the little blue pill :D
 
I took a blue pill once, next thing I knew I was weird fighting some guy in dark glasses.
 
Steep said:
I took a blue pill once, next thing I knew I was weird fighting some guy in dark glasses.
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How strange, it was the red one that did that for me ;)
 
Steep said:
Yet there are those (and sorry I did google it) who say that the British never had such a thing as a B-Limp[/

Well we've got one now. !

One thing to bear in mind is that 'not everything is on the internet'. Some things have actually been printed in books and journals and other facts from eyewitness testimonies are indelibly printed in their minds. From time to time these are shared with the current generation.

'Blimp' - pronounced in full without the hyphen. I only communicated it like that to try to make it easier to understand ! Sorry this failed.
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I was referring to the B-limp the paras were meant to have jumped out of. A bit of net reading says the word was first used in 1915/16 and probably came from the US navy who had class B non rigid airships they used for observation.
 
Donnie said:
of what? helium?
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Yep.

The US military has a huge requirement for helium for use in blimps for reconnaissance . They are struggling to meet demands from the available supplies.


It is finite, it is irreplaceable and it is running out.
 
kendo1 said:
Yep.

The US military has a huge requirement for helium for use in blimps for reconnaissance . They are struggling to meet demands from the available supplies.


It is finite, it is irreplaceable and it is running out.
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Which is why there's a push to make safer Hydrogen dirigibles I believe. Not painting them with thermite'like' substances is probably a good start (hindenberg)
 
Steep said:
Which is why there's a push to make safer Hydrogen dirigibles I believe. Not painting them with thermite'like' substances is probably a good start (hindenberg)
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Iran looks like it has found a supply :D
Things just keep getting better!

Helium is produced (or extracted) as a byproduct of natural gas production.
The US currently produces 75% of the world's helium, but it looks like it will run out in about 20 to 25 years.
This would cause problems for blimps, MRI scanners, silicon chip manufacture, aerospace, lasers, Large Hadron Collider...
 
Sooo... Iran next then? expect the vilification of Iranian leaders to begin shortly.
 
Blank_Canvas said:
The BLIMP Mk 2 or 'Type B' was used used by Paratroopers doing static jumps. Before it was inflated it was known as a 'Limp Bag' hence 'B'LIMP
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Not the story I heard. The Military had two categories of airship, A-Rigid and B-Limp.
 
one of the investors is Bruce Dickinson the lead singer of Iron Maiden.
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Their last album contained a track about the R101 which was also built at Cardington and began its maiden and last flight from there. Flammable gas was a less than safe medium to use for filling those airships, makes one wonder what the designers were thinking
 
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