Low-Flying (Hood) Blimp (Medford, Mass.)

[Ian David]

Source: Fox 25 Boston

Last Edited: Monday, 13 Aug 2007, 11:35 PM EDT

A low-flying blimp was over Medford Monday night, according to officials.

It was flying near Wellington Circle shortly before 11 p.m.

Police say the blimp was having problems, and the FAA has been notified.

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Anyone remmeber this story from September 2006?

Hood Blimp Crashes North Of Boston
No Injuries Reported



POSTED: 12:49 pm EDT September 26, 2006
UPDATED: 5:56 pm EDT September 26, 2006
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9937592/detail.html?taf=bos

[Bonobo]

1. INBTL

[trumad]

2. It aint the first time:

MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, Mass. --A Hood blimp that regularly flies above Fenway Park crashed into a wooded area Tuesday when the pilot lost rudder control shortly after takeoff and tried to make an emergency landing on a nearby beach, authorities said.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/09/26/blimp_crashes_gets_stuck_atop_trees_no_injuries/

[IndianaGreen]

8. Fenway Park? Isn't that where the evil Red Sox play?

Why should I care?

Go Yankees!

[Kingshakabobo]

3. WTF? is a "Hood Blimp"?

[Catherine Vincent]

4. ditto n/t

[SoxFan]

26. Hood

H.P. Hood & Co. is a dairy products firm in New England. The Hood logo is something of a local icon.

My grandfather worked at the big Hood plant in the Charlestown section of Boston for many years.

[beam me up scottie]

5. ROFLMAO!!!

For non-New Englanders, Hood is the name of a company that makes dairy products.

Seriously, I can never tell when Ian is fucking around anymore...

[Ian David]

6. The Hood Blimp has crashed before

Also, I saw it flying eerily and alarmingly low across Boston once around 1991-93.

When the sound of a blimp's engines is the loudest sound you can hear in the middle of Boston, it's probably flying too low across Marlborough Street.

[Kingshakabobo]

7. I say stop them before they kill again!

[Ian David]

15. They probably hire the guys from Fung Wah Bus Company to fly the thing. n/t

[Kingshakabobo]

16. I had to bust out the googles for the "Fung Wah Bus Company " reference...

At first, I thought you meant these guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2KylZ7ON4Y

[Ian David]

14. The blimp gets jiggy on the Smoot bridge

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The blimp gets jiggy on the Smoot bridge

This was taken on July 31, 2007, through the windshield of a vehicle while traveling east on Mass Ave between Cambridge and Boston.

http://www.redsoxblimp.com/2007/07/blimp-gets-jiggy-on-smoot-bridge.html

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Hoodsie Cups o' Death!

Watch out!

[catgirl]

10. Thanks for the good laugh!

Too funny. Was there really a movie about a low flying blimp? I can't
stop laughing.

[Ian David]

12. By John Frankenheimer, who gave us The Manchurian Candidate

Black Sunday (1977)

Terrorist organization Black September is planning an attack on the United States. A woman called Dahlia is the one overseeing the operation. She was in the Middle East with the other members of the organization, discussing the operation when some Israelis came in; the leader, Major Kobakov had his gun on her but didn't shoot her. Kobakov then informed the US what they found. Though they don't know what their operation is, Kobakov assures them that it will be devastating. So, with FBI man, Corley, they try to find out what it is before it's too late. But they both have different ways of doing things, and since Kobakov is the visitor, he is warned to watch it. Dahlia's "partner in crime" is Michael Lander, a Vietnam P.O.W., who is psychologically scarred by that experience, thus making him very susceptible to her machinations. Written by {[e-mail]}

A demented war veteran (Bruce Dern) plots to kill thousands of Americans at the Superbowl in Miami by using a specially designed dart-gun from the Goodyear blimp which flies above the stadium. However, a tough Middle Eastern anti-terrorist agent (Robert Shaw) has uncovered some of the plot and is out to stop him. Written by Jonathon Dabell {[e-mail]}

More:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075765/combined

[beam me up scottie]

20. " kill thousands of Americans at the Superbowl in Miami by using a specially designed dart-gun..."

Does Homeland Security know about these specially designed dart-guns?

They might need to change the color of the crayons they're using or something...

[LongTomH]

21. Actually, I think the terror weapon was nerve gas!

It's been years since I saw the movie; but, I do remember they loaded the blimp's gondola with canisters of nerve gas.

[Ian David]

23. In the movie, they used compressed gas to fire millions of tiny darts. n/t

[AlCzervik]

11. "You can feel good, good about Hood!" oh my favorite ice cream treat from childhood.

damn you Hood and your blimps of treason!

[Ian David]

13. Well, let's see if it crashes again before we decide how good we feel about it. n/t

[AlCzervik]

18. i was born and raised in Medford, it probably landed right near my old house.

which would have improved considerable.

[Pilotguy]

17. "Oh, the Humanity!"

[Gormy Cuss]

19. Where's sniffa?

Just asking :shrug:

[Thor_MN]

22. I think they need to lay in a supply of little blue pills...

Just the thing for a droopy blimp!!!

[Ian David]

24. Update: Low-Flying Blimp Alarms Residents. High Winds Force Craft To Hover Over Towns

POSTED: 6:07 am EDT August 14, 2007
UPDATED: 7:23 am EDT August 14, 2007

DANVERS, Mass. -- Boston's famous Hood blimp is often seen high above Fenway Park, but Monday night it had no ordinary flight.

The dirigible's trip ended up flooding local 911 operators with some very concerned calls.

Residents who were just finishing dinner reported that the blimp could be seen just above the tree line in Somerville, Medford and Saugus, and police dispatchers were swamped with emergency calls from frightened residents worried about how low the craft was flying. Some weren't even sure what it was.

State police contacted the Federal Aviation Administration, but the FAA knew nothing of the blimp's flight plan or the pilot's troubles.

Finally, the FAA was able to make contact with the blimp's pilot, who said high winds forced him to fly extremely low. He was finally able to land safely at Beverly Airport.



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