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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #308 on: February 05, 2022, 04:58:34 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on February 05, 2022, 04:56:17 PM
48-52 is  WhiteHouse 1600 PA.AVENUE - DC
Correct, you get a cheroot.
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« Reply #309 on: February 05, 2022, 06:39:44 PM »
Is that a cross between a Cherry Cola and a Root Beer?
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #310 on: February 06, 2022, 11:01:21 AM »
The origin of the word "blimp" has been the subject of some confusion. Lennart Ege notes two possible derivations:[2]
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Colloquially non-rigid airships always were referred to as 'Blimps'. Over the years several explanations have been advanced about the origin of this word. The most common is that in the military vernacular the Type B was referred to as 'limp bag', which was simply abbreviated to 'blimp'. An alternative explanation is that on 5 December 1915, Commander A. D. Cunningham, R.N., of the Capel-Le-Ferne Air Ship Station, flicked the envelope of the airship SS.12 with his fingers during an inspection, which produced a sound that he mimicked and pronounced as 'blimp'; and that the word then caught on as the nickname for all small non-rigid airships.[3]
The onomatopoeic derivation, as the sound the airship makes when one taps the envelope (balloon) with a finger, has been recorded in the British Aeronautical Journal.[4]
A 1943 etymology, published in The New York Times, supports a British origin during the First World War when the British were experimenting with lighter-than-air craft. The initial non-rigid aircraft was called the A-limp; and a second version called the B-limp was deemed more satisfactory.[5]
Yet a third derivation is given by Barnes & James in Shorts Aircraft since 1900:
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In February 1915 the need for anti-submarine patrol airships became urgent, and the Submarine Scout type was quickly improvised by hanging an obsolete B.E.2c fuselage from a spare Willows envelope; this was done by the R.N.A.S. at Kingsnorth, and on seeing the result for the first time, Horace Short, already noted for his very apt and original vocabulary, named it "Blimp", adding, "What else would you call it?"[6]
Dr. A. D. Topping researched the origins of the word and concluded that the British had never had a "Type B, limp" designation, and that Cunningham's coinage appeared to be the correct explanation.[7]
The Oxford English Dictionary notes its use in print in 1916: "Visited the Blimps..this afternoon at Capel". In 1918, the Illustrated London News said it was "an onomatopœic name invented by that genius for apposite nomenclature, the late Horace Short."[8]


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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #311 on: February 06, 2022, 12:14:19 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on February 04, 2022, 01:41:34 PM
1935 Eastern Airlines:


can't be accurate
no cigarette smoke
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #312 on: February 06, 2022, 01:04:18 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 06, 2022, 12:14:19 PM
can't be accurate
no cigarette smoke
I was thinking the exact same thing

maybe it wasnt allowed or just not photogenic 
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #313 on: February 06, 2022, 01:06:57 PM »
My first thought as well.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #314 on: February 06, 2022, 01:12:24 PM »
No doubt a staged photo.
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« Reply #315 on: February 06, 2022, 01:15:20 PM »
As late as the mid 90s on my earliest transatlantic flights they still had smoking sections on commercial flights.  So gross.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #316 on: February 06, 2022, 01:32:24 PM »
Yup, hard to believe.  My first trip on an airliner was in 1980, flying was really expensive back then.
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« Reply #317 on: February 06, 2022, 01:34:48 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on February 06, 2022, 01:32:24 PM
Yup, hard to believe.  My first trip on an airliner was in 1980, flying was really expensive back then.
My first trip was on a 707 in 1967
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« Reply #318 on: February 06, 2022, 01:35:14 PM »
photoshopped
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« Reply #319 on: February 06, 2022, 01:36:16 PM »
mine was in 76 - bicentennial school trip to Washington DC

parents had not been on a plane at that time

couldn't afford it
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« Reply #320 on: February 06, 2022, 01:45:20 PM »
We had one family vacation via plane when I was 10 in 1988... It was the only time I had been on a plane until I started interviewing for jobs my final semester at Purdue. 
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #321 on: February 06, 2022, 02:15:39 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 06, 2022, 12:14:19 PM
can't be accurate
no cigarette smoke
Quote from: longhorn320 on February 06, 2022, 01:04:18 PM
I was thinking the exact same thing

maybe it wasnt allowed or just not photogenic
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 06, 2022, 01:06:57 PM
My first thought as well.
I was looking for DB Cooper and the aft stair well
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