Blimp

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No… It’s a blimp!

• Blimps are aircraft with no inside framework used for support.
• Blimps lift due to high pressure and helium pumped in the balloon.
• The only solid parts of a blimp are the gondola, where the passengers are, and tail fins used for stability.
• Blimps require propeller motors for steering mobility.
• Some blimps were used for patrolling purposes for the United States Navy in the World War I period.

Blimp
Image courtesy of Tom Grinsted/Flickr

• Blimps are commonly used for advertising purposes, and some blimps have 1000s of LED lights on them to shine messages.
• Blimps are often deflated in transportation processes.
• The term ‘blimp’ only refers to aircraft that free fly in the air.
• The term ‘blimp’ is a mix of the original British word for blimp, limp, and the most common type of blimp class, B, thus creating ‘blimp’.
• In 1925, Goodyear Tire and Rubber created the blimps we now know today.

Bibiliography:
Blimp 28 February 2013 , Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blimp>

Freudenrich, C N.d., Blimp, How Stuff Works, <http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/blimp.htm>