Jim Logajan wrote in
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
On the other hand, here's a video someone took of a Goodyear blimp
caught in a thunderstorm trying to make headway in turbulent
conditions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERI8_cprgMo

Wow! that was cool!

It ended in a crash, but no fatalities according to the NTSB report:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...06X00943&key=1

They were vry lucky, really.

I have a bit more on that airship incident, if you are interested in
that sort of stuff. The following is quoted with permission from Rick
Zitarosa who posted this to the University of Colorado e-mail
Airship-List about a month ago:


Have some good video footage of the old N10A AMERICA making a
(successful) emergency landing in a sandstorm in Texas...will try to
post it one of these days."


Like to see it, but haven't got the time to do a lot of airship reading at
the moment.. I read a few years ago, mostly about the USN's operations with
rigids in the thirties.