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Airship pictures from 1950's.
Blimps are a majestic and fascinating aircraft. This site is about my experiences flying in Navy blimps from 1954 to 1956. It is my ego trip and I would like you to humor me and come along. Maybe my blimp pictures and stories will stir some of your own memories - - and dreams.

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-- Aboard A Blimp Hunting U-Boats; A Day Above The Atlantic Reveals Navy Talk And Navy Ways, Creeping Convoys And Torpedoed Wrecks.
-- Airships: A Popular History of Dirigibles, Zeppelins, Blimps, and Other Lighter-Than-Air Craft
-- Adventures of Buddy The Blimp.
-- The complete book of airships: Dirigibles, blimps & hot air balloons.
-- The Blimp Book.
-- Roo Kickkick and the Big Bad Blimp.
-- The Blimp Boys Go to War:
-- Friendly skies for Fujifilm blimp:
-- Blimps & U-Boats: U.S. Navy Airships in the Battle of the Atlantic.
-- Navy Boats and Blimps:
-- Buy me a Blimp!
-- The Story of Flight: Early Flying Machines, Balloons, Blimps, Gliders, Warplanes, and Jets.
-- Blimps Balloons and Bombs.
-- Blimp RAID: Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment system.
-- The Blimp Crew.
-- Manufacturer finds variety of uses for modern blimps.
-- Navy Airships at War.
-- Famous Blimps.
-- Blimp!
-- Blimps in space.
-- Blimps: Flying Machines.
-- On the Move... Blimps
-- Up, Up, and Away!: All About Balloons, Blimps and Dirigibles.
-- Airships in World War I & II:
-- A practical guide to building small gas blimps.
-- AIRSHIPS, A POPULAR HISTORY OF DIRIGIBLES, ZEPPELINS, BLIMPS AND OTHER LIGHTER THAN AIR CRAFT.
-- Battle Blimps at War.
-- Some technical notes on thermal blimps.
-- Navy Airships and Blimps:
-- Footnote to history: Salvage of the USN Blimp K-14
-- Blimps: Big & Beautiful.
-- Mysteries of the Blimp.
-- Blimps & Such.
-- Airships
-- Airship Technology.
-- Airship Aerodynamics:
-- Zeppelins: German Airships 1900-40
-- Warriors Airships and Blimps:
-- The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918.
-- From Airships to Airbus:
-- Giants in the sky: A history of the rigid airship.
-- Up Ship!: A History of the U.S. Navy's Rigid Airships 1919-1935.
-- Birth of the Blimp:
-- Lighter Than Air: History of Hot-Air Balloons and Airships.
-- Airship Patents:
-- Golden Age of the Great Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg.
-- When monsters roamed the skies;: The saga of the dirigible airship.
-- Kite Balloons To Airships: The Navy's Lighter-than-air Experience.
-- The Disaster of the Hindenburg: The Last Flight of the Greatest Airship Ever Built.
-- Balloons, Blimps, and Ballast:
-- The Goodyear Blimp Story.
-- Bring On the Blimps!

DISCLAIMER:
Blimp and airship pictures in Larry's Airship Picture Book are for entertainment only.
I was assigned to Airship Squadron 3 at Lakehurst, New Jersey from Feb. 1954 to Nov. 1956. Blimp experiences described are from my memory. Blimp photos and blimp facilities are from my blimp scrap book. All blimp statistics are from memory or are documented in official navy blimp manuals, or newspapers and magazines reporting on actual blimp events. No specific blimp is identified; however, the airship I flew in most frequently was numbered Navy Airship 716. Other blimps I flew in were 717 and 446. Each blimp had a crew of 18 men. Each blimp was maintained by the blimp crew assigned to that particular blimp.

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