Word: hovers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress and the Navy Department had lost months of precious time in seeing the clear advantages of blimps on patrol: visibility of five miles in all directions, ability to see as far as 70 feet below the surface in clear water, to hover over such tiny clues as oil smears, a phosphorescent glow at night, air bubbles, or the telltale "feather" of the submarine's wake...
Never an isolationist, we have been worried for some time about the hazards of converting Mr. Average Citizen into a Citizen Of The World. We have felt all along that the mind of Brooklyn or the spirit of Nebraska could not hover above the oil-fields of Balik Papan or the Pripet marshes without taking punishment, that our local American heritage could not be stretched all over the globe without coming apart at the seams...
...about three times as large as the familiar advertising type. They are 250 ft. long, inflated with 416,000 cubic feet of helium, can cruise 1,500 miles at a speed of 55 m.p.h. As a submarine pursuer the blimp has many an advantage over the plane. It can hover motionless over its prey, move along with it constantly whatever its speed, fly below ceiling in all but the foulest weather...
Although many Navy men still doubt its value, the airship can do some things an airplane can't. It can run at low speed, or stop dead, hover over a suspected subsea object, take dead aim with bomb or depth charge from a stationary platform. From its car, in clear weather, the eight-man crew of a modern blimp once spotted a submarine 90 feet below the surface. Crews from Lakehurst daily practice following sharks and whales, occasionally give them a practice bomb. Other blimp virtues: they can stay in the air about 50 hours, can follow...
...Fight, Fight." In public the boys stood by each other. Bellamy's older brother, Herb, was a great scrapper. But whenever Herb was in a fight, it was understood that Bellamy would "hover near by waiting for the battle cry." If Herb needed reinforcements, he would shout: "Jump in, Bill...