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>>>Blimp (n): A light-than air craft, ussually filled with a light gas
>>>such as Hydrogen (back inthe Zepelin (sp?) days) or Helium. A large,
>>
>>OK thanks, I gonna use blimp for zeppelin now.... Its shorter:)
>
> You'd be wrong. A blimp is a non-rigid lighter than air craft,
>while zeppelins were rigid. Blimp, no skeleton. Zep, skeleton.
Just to throw my own 3 cents into this off topic conversation, there
were several series of lighter-than-air ship. The "B" series did not have a
rigid frame, hence were "limp". The "D" series did have a rigid frame. The
names came from the "B"limp and the "D"rigid, hence the blimp and the
dirigible.
BTW, my Webster's unabridged does not list the derivation of either of
these terms. Anyone got an OED?
<ELF> - Eric J Fleischer,MD - Dr Gandalf
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