Blimp
Blimp is a Anglo-American term indicating a flexible Airship (in opposition to rigid ). The term blimp would be onomatopoeical, the sound which the aircraft makes when one strikes the envelope of the balloon with a finger. Although there is a certain dissension among the historian S, one generally allots this term to Lt. A.D. Conningham of the Royal British Navy in 1915.
It there has another explanation for the term, often repeated but distorts (urban Légende). At the beginning of the XXe century, the soldiers of the the United States of America had two classes for the aircraft: Have-rigid type, Standard B-limp (flask). The blimps were used by several companies, including Goodyear, Budweiser, and Fujifilm, which makes use of it for publicity, and like platforms to provide air photographs of sports events.
During the world wars, they were used with the recognition and protection as objectives. The blimps maintain their form by an internal overpressure. In theory, the only not inflated parts are the momentary compartment and the ailerons.
A blimp which uses hot air is a Montgolfière.
A blimp appears in film of James Bond Dangereusement yours .
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