OtakuLoki:
How soon will they start running Zeppelin tours from the Empire State Building, here in the US?
There’s a field out in Jersey much better suited for it.
Yes. But that’s Jersey. It just won’t play with the jet set. It’s got to be something in Manhattan. Maybe erect a docking tower on USS Intrepid ?
Jolly Good! All we need now are some Sopwith Camels and S.E. 5as with which to buzz the Zeppelins…
Where are my Flying Helmet and Goggles, and where’s Biggles when you need him?
Not Biggles–Beagles! Good Grief!
BTW-- I bought this, recently.
London 1914–17: The Zeppelin Menace (Campaign) [Castle, Ian, Hook, Christa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. London 1914–17: The Zeppelin Menace (Campaign)
$25.00
First Class history of the first time.
I used to have a small RC blimp in a loft apartment with a 20’ ceiling. It was really great fun at parties. I got rid of it when I moved to a place where the was no more maneuvering room – the Sudetenland.
Of course this ties in nicely with the SDMB’s own airship story.
Yes one of lifes finer and gentler sports. Now the result is always a foregone conclusion, but the gentle clapping of the fans spontaneously applauding a particularly eager racing pair as they go by, is one of those quintessential sounds of a warm spring day.
Lumpy
April 9, 2008, 1:01am
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Incidentally, what did the Brits call their own miniature blimps – those big, unmanned, blimp-shaped balloons – that were part of their anti-aircraft defense [er, better make that “defence”]… er, somehow? One was lovingly recreated in the film Hope and Glory .
(And were they effective?)
They held the island up from sinking.
There is significant doubt about the Thermite-skin theory, as the Wikipedia article covers at some length.
Miller:
Slower banter?!
Ra-ther!
You mean … “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” was fiction ?
[sniff] The SDMB classics. [sniff, wipes away tear]
WotNot
April 9, 2008, 10:57am
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Giles:
You know, there is something about that W.E. Johns style of dialogue that just escapes me. Every word of it sounds like it’s English, but the whole thing makes no sense at all. But I hope that Bally Jerry is on his way to recovery: it sounds like what he did might have been quite painful.
To be fair, old boy, what you quoted wasn’t Johns, it was Python (Monty). Far too silly.
Take a shufti at Squadron Leader Enfield here for the pukka gen:
Not at all dear chap, just got into a spot of bother with some Archie over Wipers this morning and before you can say Bob’s your uncle I’ve got a Flying Circus dropping in on me and I nearly got tangled in a Boche Sausage on the other side of the lines!
Like a face-full of castor oil on a spring morning.
glee
April 9, 2008, 11:37am
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Nothing wrong with a spot of banter, old boy. Absolutely top-hole, don’t’cha know?
Officer: Now look here, Jenkins.
Giles:
You know, there is something about that W.E. Johns style of dialogue that just escapes me. Every word of it sounds like it’s English, but the whole thing makes no sense at all. But I hope that Bally Jerry is on his way to recovery: it sounds like what he did might have been quite painful.
Um, not to burst your balloon or anything, it’s from a sketch, a spoof, a humorous vignette.
Good gad Sir! Plagiarism, however one spells it, in our squadron! Damn your eyes, Sir, I’ll have your guts for garters! Brickbats at half a mile! My Second shall call upon you in the morning.
carnivorousplant:
Good gad Sir! Plagiarism, however one spells it, in our squadron! Damn your eyes, Sir, I’ll have your guts for garters! Brickbats at half a mile! My Second shall call upon you in the morning.
Steady old man, there’s a good fellow, you’ll upset the lads.
Ripping, Old Top. Simply too smashing for words. I’ll wrap myself in the flag and think of England. Keep a round for yourself in case the buggers break through!
They talk that way to confuse and immobilize their prey.
Have you checked your physical security lately?
