[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
How soon will they start running Zeppelin tours from the Empire State Building, here in the US?
(Yes, the Empire State Building has a docking collar for Zeppelins. No, it was never put to serious use as a passenger transfer station. IIRC it was only only added to steal a march on the Chrysler Building, and never intended to be put to actual regular use. I have no idea what condition it might be in these days. Somehow I have visions of nearly three-quarters of a century accumulation of guano fouling the works.)
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There’s a field out in Jersey much better suited for it.
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.
[QUOTE=Mooch]
Yes, same here in Chicago. Spring is when the zeppelin races resume along the lakeshore. Tally ho indeed.
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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.
[QUOTE=The Scrivener]
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?)
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They held the island up from sinking.
There is significant doubt about the Thermite-skin theory, as the Wikipedia article covers at some length.
[QUOTE=Miller]
Slower banter?!
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Ra-ther!
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
Yes, the Empire State Building has a docking collar for Zeppelins. No, it was never put to serious use as a passenger transfer station.
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You mean … “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” was fiction?
[QUOTE=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.
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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:
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]
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!
Funny story, though, I managed to pull an Immelman and let one of the blighters have it with the Vickers, but wouldn’t you know it, the Rhone cut out and before I knew what the devil happened, my kite was upside down in a bocage field and I was getting pulled clear by some of the local villagers.
As luck would have it I was on our side of the lines, and after a jolly good meal at the local pub and a pint of lager to steady my nerves, I got on the blower, gave the CO a jingle, and they sent the tender down to pick me up not half an hour ago.
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Like a face-full of castor oil on a spring morning.
[QUOTE=BMalion]
Something wrong with my banter, chaps?
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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.
Jenkins: Yes sah!
Officer: What we need at this stage of the war is a useless gesture.
Jenkins: Yes sah!
Officer: So we want you to fly your old crate over to Berlin - and not come back!
Jenkins: Very good, sah.
Officer: Well goodbye, Jenkins.
Jenkins: Yes sah! Err … shall we say Au Revoir, sah?
Officer: Certainly not, Jenkins. Goodbye.
[QUOTE=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.
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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.
[QUOTE=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.
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Steady old man, there’s a good fellow, you’ll upset the lads.
[QUOTE=BMalion]
Steady old man, there’s a good fellow, you’ll upset the lads.
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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!
