Subject: Re: ADVICE : Learn (Blimps!)
From: Ernie Wright <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 18:24:17 -0400 (EDT)

"Dirigible" is a general term for airships.  The word's original meaning,
"steerable" (from the same Latin root as "direction"), makes a distinction 
from balloons, which go wherever the wind takes them.

A blimp is a non-rigid airship (or dirigible).  Its shape is maintained
solely by gas pressure.

Zeppelins are rigid--they have an internal framework.

Smoothing ON for blimps, OFF for zeppelins.

- Ernie

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