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<blockquote data-quote="OKNewshawk" data-source="post: 3591929" data-attributes="member: 6592"><p>That was one thing about growing up at the Jersey Shore in the early 1960s. The Navy was still using blimps to patrol the coast for Soviet submarines. Our house had a unique shape as it was originally a restaurant with an attached apartment in the back. One night, a blimp that was having trouble trying to fight a headwind used our house as a landmark to hover over until they could continue on their patrol. I even got to visit NAS Lakehurst on an Armed Forces Day and see the blimps in and out of their hangars. </p><p></p><p>About 15 years later I enlisted in the Naval Air Reserves at Lakehurst. By then the blimps were long gone and Hangar Number 1 had a simulated aircraft carrier flight and hangar deck built inside it. The aviation boatswain's mate school used it for practical training on aircraft handling.</p><p></p><p>Sent from my LGL722DL using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OKNewshawk, post: 3591929, member: 6592"] That was one thing about growing up at the Jersey Shore in the early 1960s. The Navy was still using blimps to patrol the coast for Soviet submarines. Our house had a unique shape as it was originally a restaurant with an attached apartment in the back. One night, a blimp that was having trouble trying to fight a headwind used our house as a landmark to hover over until they could continue on their patrol. I even got to visit NAS Lakehurst on an Armed Forces Day and see the blimps in and out of their hangars. About 15 years later I enlisted in the Naval Air Reserves at Lakehurst. By then the blimps were long gone and Hangar Number 1 had a simulated aircraft carrier flight and hangar deck built inside it. The aviation boatswain's mate school used it for practical training on aircraft handling. Sent from my LGL722DL using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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