ARK No.2 - March 1974

Grimesish Grumberlings,
The Ultimate Blimp

(Article)

I have always had a thing about airships. (If you hear a faint clashing of phallic cymbals, ignore it.) It dates back, I think, to World War I, of which conflict I have a few childhood memories. One of them is of an air raid on London, with that silvery torpedo shape, a zeppelin, very high (by the standards of those days) caught in the criss-crossing beams of the searchlights. Somehow that recollection is scarcely less vivid than those of air raids on London during World War II....

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