Presently the Blimp swung round and faced the wind, keeping on a course slightly diverging from that of the convoy.
Then, amid a farewell outburst of cheering, the Blimp flew eastwards, to disappear from view behind the lofty Staddon Heights.
Attention had been shifted from the Blimp to the milk-white track in the water--the wake of the torpedo.
Illustration: Few important cities east of the Mississippi have missed seeing a Goodyear blimp by now, not to speak of those in the Southwest, the Pacific coast.
The experience accumulated by the blimp pilots under varying weather conditions over the country proved useful to the Navy, particularly in the expeditionary operations which coastal patrol would demand.
More important is it that the wartime blimp was to a large extent hangar-bound.
The blimp patrols, however, uncovered one other type of activity.
An orange crate moving against the tide attracted the attention of one alert pilot, for the crate concealed a periscope, and the blimp dropped bombs--successfully.
The blimp could be fueled and serviced completely in the open.
But for a trick of fate and the lack of equipment available today, a blimp would have been first to get across.
No Goodyear blimp has ever been damaged by storms while in the air, though a bit of resourcefulness was needed from time to time.
Twenty-five feet up from the scoop is a streamlined cylinder, blimp shaped, carrying a small electric pump.
With a relatively tiny Goodyear blimp as escort, the Graf lands at Los Angeles after crossing the Pacific.
The blimp was barely five hundred feet up, and at that height it seemed as if one could touch the trucks of her mast with a fishing-rod.
Several times Meredith accompanied Cumberleigh on a flight in a blimpover the interned German fleet.
The ignition of both motors had been switched off and the blimp was floating almost motionless in the still air.
Many a time he had clambered out of the fuselage of a blimp at anything up to five thousand feet, but the swinging monkey ladder as it flogged the side of the rolling ship was quite another proposition.
The star shell had died out but he could see the blimp silhouetted against the sky.
Their new banner, hoisted to dry in the sun, proclaimed: BLIMP MAIL.
The blimp captain was obviously skeptical, and betrayed signs of a peeve at having his machine hired for a hoax; but money was money and he agreed to obey our instructions meticulously.
The blimp pitched steeply upward to a standstill, barely moving toward the parachute.
At last, with a quiver of renewed hope, I saw the blimp narrowing down its spirals--it was overtaking!
We got all set, the blimp circling overhead, Tristan upside down in his seat suspended skyward, a desperately grim look on his face; and Alice almost in collapse.
Lord of Hosts--the blimp was slanting steeply downward; the parachute had vanished!
He set them forth on the top of a fat and wobbly blimpwith sagging hull.
Why, he was kin to every dirigible, every balloon, every little fat blimp that adventured into the upper tides!
That old blimp we tried it on with rips here and there to give the wind a chance, you remember?
Thus, it will be seen that the blimp is an important auxiliary of the flying-machine in the pursuit of the submarines.
The Navy Department adopted for the blimp a standardized pattern, with definite published specifications, in accordance with which contractors turned them out in numbers.
Thus if (just for illustration) a blimpspies a hostile submarine, the news is instantly transmitted to the Navy Department.
In effect, the blimp is a combination of balloon and aeroplane.
In order to hold whatever position in the air may be desired, the blimp is equipped with two horizontal fins and three vertical fins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blimp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: airship; balloon; blimp; dumpling; fatty; heavy; heavyweight; hippo; lump; reactionary; ship; tub; white
