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From: faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: On Airships
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 14:27:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 14:27:43 1985
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> subject.  The U.S. Navy tried experimenting with some -- besides
> blimps, they worked with dirigibles, with less than perfect success.

40+ years of service with the Navy is somewhat more than an experiment.
The last LTA squadron was decommissioned in 1961.  When I was in a 
helicopter squadron in '64/65. lots of the lifers had come from LTA.
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