NEWS
September 26, 2007
On September 23, 2007, JAMES WILLIAM CURRIE, age 85, passed away at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care, from complications associated with Alzheimer's disease. Born in Roopville, Georgia on January 6, 1922, he was the son of the late James Hardy and Viva (Cockrell) Currie of Anniston, Alabama. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in engineering in 1945. During his 40-year career with Westinghouse Corporation, he was Director of the Center for Advanced Studies and Analysis in Falls Church, Virginia; Manager of the Operations and Support Division of Tethered Communications (TCOM)
NEWS
By Julie Bykowicz and Julie Bykowicz,SUN STAFF | September 9, 2003
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - Lifting off in a blimp is downright scary. The motor wheezes like an overworked weed-eater, and the angle of ascent is so steep that passengers tilt forward in their seats as if they are on an amusement ride. For a few moments, it seems certain the oversized balloon will deflate and fall back to earth. But once the blimp levels out at about 1,000 feet, the ride becomes as smooth as a cruise on a luxury ocean liner - minus the seasickness. Throughout the summer, hundreds of vacationers have paid $100 to $200 each to be part of the only blimp tour in North America (one of just three worldwide)
SPORTS
By Peter Schmuck and Peter Schmuck,SUN STAFF | January 26, 2001
TAMPA, Fla. - Carl Harbuck and Matthew St. John claim to have the best seats for Sunday's Super Bowl XXXV matchup between the Ravens and New York Giants, but it's not what you think. They have to get to the game about eight hours early and they're going to be a good 1,700 feet from the field of play. You see, Harbuck and St. John will be piloting the Budweiser.com blimp that will provide the network overhead shots of the festivities at Raymond James Stadium - and about 60 other major television events over the course of the coming year.
NEWS
By Candus Thomson and Candus Thomson,SUN STAFF | March 24, 1999
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Jim Thiele is building giant bumper stickers in the sky. His blimps, lighted internally like jack-o'-lanterns, hover over sporting events around the world, hawking cars and beer and life insurance. Of the approximately two dozen airships aloft, Thiele's American Blimp Corp., with offices in Hillsboro and Severna Park, is responsible for 19. ABC blimps are different. Smaller. Brighter. Hipper. Just right for advertising. ABC airships have carried the logos of Coca-Cola, Nokia, Met Life (the Snoopy balloon)
FEATURES
By Fred Rasmussen and Fred Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | November 16, 1997
Baltimoreans have never lost their affection for airplanes and other, odd airborne craft.In 1910, 500,000 citizens got their first sight of an airplane when French aviator Hubert Latham flew over the city. Twenty-six years later, the ill-fated Hindenburg, bearing swastikas on its tail fins, paid a quick visit to the city while cruising to its base at Lakehurst, N.J.Through the years, experimental planes have flown around the area from the old Glenn L. Martin Co. Middle River plant. Sputnik and even UFO sightings during the 1950s and 1960s kept Marylanders scanning the night skies.
NEWS
By Mary Williams Walsh and Mary Williams Walsh,LOS ANGELES TIMES | February 1, 1997
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany -- Imagine a slow, scenic glide through the skies in an aircraft that burns little fuel, pollutes hardly at all, affords a good view for all on board and makes no bothersome noise or vibrations.Sixty years ago, before the advent of the jet engine, the rich did travel in this grand style, aboard the giant "silver cigars" )R developed by German aristocrat and army officer Count Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich von Zeppelin.Count von Zeppelin's zeppelins made fortnightly flights between Friedrichshafen and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and trips every 24 days from Friedrichshafen to New York.