Sentence examples for blimp from inspiring English sources

His latest annual publication on government waste singled out $297m spent on an unused army blimp and $432m on new air force planes that will not be flown, as well as less expensive absurdities like the $3m NASA spent studying Congress.He hated subsidies for rich farmers.

They could have other military uses, too: in 2006, Lockheed Martin is due to position a prototype airship over the city of Akron, Ohio, once the centre of Goodyear's blimp operation, as part of an experimental missile-defence system.

From 20km a blimp would be able to continuously survey an area the size of Texas for months at a time, but in greater detail and at much lower cost than geostationary satellites or those moving in low Earth orbit.Despite the problems, dirigibles are coming back into service.

At altitudes of just a few hundred metres, a blimp carrying 20kg of remote-sensing electronics (including radar and infrared thermal-imaging cameras) can seek out, track and provide images of combatants dozens of kilometres away day or night.

Moreover, they usually stay aloft even when punctured: the pressure of the helium inside a blimp is about the same as that of the air outside it, so the gas does not rush out.

A blimp can be stored in the back of a jeep, driven to a suitable location, launched in a couple of hours and winched down again even faster.Unlike other aircraft, blimps do not need to form a precise aerodynamic shape.

Indeed, towards the end of 2004, when a blimp broke its tether north of Baghdad and started to drift towards Iran, the American air force had trouble shooting it down.At least 20 countries use blimps both global military powers, such as America, Britain and France, and smaller regional ones, including Ireland, Pakistan, Poland and the United Arab Emirates.

The blimp distorts trade, between countries and states.

At altitudes of just a few hundred metres, a blimp carrying 20kg of remote-sensing electronics (including radar and thermal-imaging cameras) can identify, track and provide images of combatants dozens of kilometres away, by day or night.

Moreover, they usually stay aloft even when punctured: the pressure of the helium inside a blimp is about the same as that of the air outside, so the gas does not rush out.

The inner envelope holds helium in the head section of the blimp and an ethane fuel gas in the three tail sections.