10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOORING MAST»
Discover the use of
mooring mast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mooring mast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
"You might get in touch with the Navy Department tomorrow," he suggested, "and
get the specifications for a mooring-mast. We ought to have one here." The
mooring-mast is now being erected on the airplane landing-field near the Ford ...
Despite the conflicting opinions of many experts, an attempt is to be made to
anchor the huge dirigible "Los Angeles" to the mooring mast that has been
erected atop the towering Empire State building over the heart of New York City.
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The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
“enjoyed the quips and jokes about the Empire State mooring mast, on the same
principle as the individual in high public office enjoys the slings and arrows
embodied in cartoons of him. It is all in a lifetime. The Empire State Building was
built ...
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The Footprint of Polar Tourism: Tourist Behaviour at ...
Particular attention was paid to narratives about the historic events associated
with the airship mooring mast as delivered by the tour guides in English.
Following Dean MacCannell (1976: 110), narratives are regarded as markers –
that is, ...
Ricardo Mariano Roura, 2011
Development of the Mooring Mast Many of the early airships were moored by two
or more tethers, much in the same way as a ship is docked. When adverse
weather conditions were forecast the craft were moved into their sheds, the
hazards ...
Gabriel Alexander Khoury, 2012
THE mooring of the gigantic airship of today when arriving in port or departing, is
not radically dissimilar to the docking of large ocean liners. For the pull and push
of panting tugs there are substituted a mooring mast, winches, and a small crew ...
At the same instant, the mobile mooring mast, side handling cars and groups of
men on the handling-line spiders, begin moving the ship in the previously
designated direction—either forward or astern. From 10 to 24 men are on each of
the ...
The newly developed mooring mast changes all this by providing the means
whereby any aviation field may, for a nominal sum, equip itself for receiving this
type of air craft regardless of wind conditions. The mooring mast is made entirely
of ...
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Iron Rails in the Garden State: Tales of New Jersey Railroading
As the craft approached the short mooring mast, it had to travel slowly because it
was so low and even the slightest miscalculation might dash it against the ground
. Lines were dropped from just behind the nose of the ship, and ground crews ...
Anthony J. Bianculli, 2008
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The Empire State Building
Then, from the center of the new top floor the rocket-shaped mooring mast would
rise. As Tauranac described it: A thirty-five-foot square shaft of metal and faceted
glass would rise 158 feet from the eighty-sixth floor to the conical roof atop the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOORING MAST»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mooring mast is used in the context of the following news items.
LANE: Will roadside "Wave" become an icon?
Maybe a zeppelin mooring mast, too, presumably to encourage more local zeppelin traffic. Accounts differ. In models and artist's drawings, ... «Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jul 15»
What ignited the Hindenburg?
It caught fire while attempting to dock with its mooring mast, killing 13 passengers, 22 crewmen and one ground worker. Previous airship ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, Jul 15»
Top 10 things you never knew about flying objects
The spire of the Empire State Building in New York was originally designed to serve as a mooring mast for Zeppelins and other airships. 3. «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
Blimp makes its way across Macarthur region
Unlike a hot-air balloon, the blimp never deflates. On the ground it's tethered to a special mooring mast erected at the airfield. TAKE A LEAP OF ... «The Daily Telegraph, May 15»
Best view of Quail Hollow? From 1000 feet above
Mike Carr disconnects the MetLife blimp from its mooring mast in Gastonia Friday, May 5, 2015. | TODD SUMLIN tsumlin@charlotteobserver. «Charlotte Observer, May 15»
The R-101 Disaster
The R-101 at its mooring mast at Cardington. Credit: Wikipedia. The only other thing that the crash investigators can go on is the testimony of ... «Aviation Week, May 15»
Today in Media History: Hindenburg explodes and a reporter cries …
It's coming down out of the sky pointed directly towards us and toward the mooring mast. The mighty diesel motors just roared, the propellers ... «Poynter.org, May 15»
The Hindenburg, a German zeppelin, burst into flames in May 1937
The mammoth airliner, completing her first transatlantic crossing of the 1937 season, was nosing down in a long glide toward the mooring mast ... «New York Daily News, May 15»
'Wings of Fury' a sky-high tale
At the nose, the framework of lateral struts came to a point, under which hung a clamp that would allow the vessel to dock with the mooring mast ... «Great Falls Tribune, May 15»
Throwback Thursday: The Legend Of Tulsa's Airship Mooring Mast
Legend has it the tower was designed as a mooring mast for airships AND that an airship actually DID moor there in the early 1930s. «News On 6, Mar 15»
