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Offline Tupac

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Blimps!
« on: April 20, 2011, 01:12:46 AM »
Heres a pictue a good friend of mine took at KSSF



Very rare to see one blimp, but two? I just thought i'd share.
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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 01:33:22 AM »
I spy, with my little eye, a Phantom?
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Offline allaire

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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 04:16:29 AM »
Awe isn't that cute. The Farmers blimp had a baby. :rofl
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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 04:25:32 AM »
Quote from: Pigslilspaz on April 20, 2011, 01:33:22 AM
I spy, with my little eye, a Phantom?

and a Voodoo beside it.
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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 08:39:40 AM »
.....& a Phantom  :airplane:
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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2011, 08:59:22 AM »
Did he take the pic while in the GoodYear blimp?
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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2011, 04:32:05 PM »
Never thought id c the day with 2 blimps and a phantom in the same shot   :old:
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2011, 05:01:05 PM »
     That Texas Air Museum looks interesting...

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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2011, 05:11:13 PM »
I should have titled the thread "Blimpin ain't easy"
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Offline ROX

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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2011, 05:29:45 PM »
When I was about 11 or 12 the Goodyear Blimp came to town.  I lived 1/2 mile from the local airport.  My aunt worked at the local Goodyear plant and the employees were offered free rides.  She passed.   :lol

It was SWEET to see that thing upping then toodling around for about 45 minutes and then coming back and landing multiple times over a 3 day period.  Almost as sweet as the local guy who owned the Corsair and took it up sometimes on weekends.  THAT sucker was LOUD.
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2011, 05:31:32 PM »
We should do a medical study with this picture:  Half of us first noticed the Phantom and Voodoo, the other half the two blimps.
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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2011, 05:33:42 PM »
Quote from: Babalonian on April 20, 2011, 05:31:32 PM
We should do a medical study with this picture:  Half of us first noticed the Phantom and Voodoo, the other half the two blimps.
That is because the blimps are in the foreground and the Phantom and Voodoo are in the background.  In my defense it was ridiculously early when I posted. :noid
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Offline jigsaw

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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2011, 06:14:25 PM »
When I was instructing in Phoenix Metlife always had a blimp in the area during the big golf events. Had a picture of Snoopy on the side and the appropriate callsign of "Snoopy 1."
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2011, 06:33:11 PM »
     Back in the late 80s Goodyear used to bring a blimp to Teterboro all the time to film Meadowland events.  One week
they were giving 45 minute joyrides around Manhattan, but I missed it by 5 minutes!!  My buddies actually got to drive
the blimp, made for some good stories.
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Re: Blimps!
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2011, 07:10:17 PM »
Don't know why the Fuji film blimp was flying over Northwest Arkansas but looked up one day to see it floating by really random.

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