Goodyear blimp

[FUJIMO]

Leave it on the beach like everyone else

...jeeez...and i thought those were jellyfish...

[David - WI]

...Wow, glad there is someone else that was there for that! the wife and i were talking about that today, as we do every year, lol. that was incredible. ya had to be there, right?! it was either the first or second year of the "Shell Air & Sea Show". we were there. they had a quite a few bleacher seats set up for local important people to sit on at the south end of the ft. lauderdale strip, right on the sand. (i want to laugh just thinking about it) ...of course everything was free back then, not like it is today. the guy comes down in what...and F-16 or something...and does a "really" slow nose up, and long, stall...right above the shallow ocean water there...right in front of the mayor's, etc., bleachers. it blew everything, and everybody right out of there! ...and the sound! OMG! it was the same year or two that they also went low over the beach in multiple passes, with the afterburners full on! BIG NO-NO. it busted out a lot of windows in the buildings on the beach. they nixed all that the very next year, which was a bummer, lol. the shell sponsored shows the first few years were the very best. when was the first year, do you remember?

Let's be honest... outboards should have afterburners!

[Markus]

...what would they do with it when they were done...?

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[XstreamVking]

We been having a little different air show here on the west coast. Black and green helicopters going up and down the coast for a couple of weeks. These are not Iroquois, they are Apache's and Blackhawks. Moving fast and in groups. Something happening. They do have an awesome sound.

[mr fun]

What do you do with 365 used Trojan's ,,, melt them down and make a tire and call it a "Good Year" Ba Daa Bump

[Chaz]

1978 Watson Island Blimp Base

https://pbase.com/donboyd/image/165624553


1975

1975 - the old MacArthur Causeway bridge, Watson Island, Government Cut and Port of Miami at Dodge Island photo - Don Boyd photos at pbase.com

Way after the Navy blimp base closed , that was out on sw 152 st .. and before they started construction on Metro Zoo .. we'd drag race on the concrete ...



X-tream ... not to worry . The military hasn't used S. Fla since WW2 ...

Hawk + Nike Missile site locations ...



My favorite ... bunker #3 inside the park ..

[Li'l Toy]

Chaz--forgot about the Blimp on Watson. Do sure miss Chalk's though.

[Chaz]

I remember it ... cuz it was on the way to , two of my favorite places as a kid ...

[FUJIMO]

...those nuke missile sites were everywhere in america. by the hundreds. glad we never used them. by the time they were all up & operational, they were all declared obsolete & replaced with other design missiles that were less numerous because of their potency. scary stuff.

[FUJIMO]

We been having a little different air show here on the west coast. Black and green helicopters going up and down the coast for a couple of weeks. These are not Iroquois, they are Apache's and Blackhawks. Moving fast and in groups. Something happening. They do have an awesome sound.

... stream, we had the same ones over here every day too, a year or two ago, that lasted a few weeks as well. lots of people took notice & were getting wigged out. they finally announced on the news, that they were just "training exercizes", training new pilots, etc. yeah right. who knows.

[David - WI]

We have them (Blackhawks) here about once a month, training at the local airport (near zero air traffic)... I don't know if they repel guys down or just practice hovering; I can see the airport lights from my house but the action is usually behind the trees.

[Chaz]

They have been workin on the ole Indian's replacement out at "The Complex"

[Chaz]

...those nuke missile sites were everywhere in america. by the hundreds. glad we never used them. by the time they were all up & operational, they were all declared obsolete & replaced with other design missiles that were less numerous because of their potency. scary stuff.

We still have missiles planted everywhere in the United State's .. maybe even a few outside our borders .. Never said we didn't.
Outdated and obsolete .. maybe, but unless you were here in 1963 .. you have no idea how important the Hawk and Nike missile sites were to the people of So. Florida. Those weren't Palm tree's Khrushchev was planting in Cuba ... Cooler heads prevailed, they cleaned out Cuba and JFK pulled our nukes out of Turkey . Fair enough.
Take the tour at the park some day .. watch the faces when they open that cute little barn ..

[CUDA]

Thank God we had a President with a solid miltery back ground,

not a draft dodging embelisher.


https://www.britannica.com/event/Cuban-missile-crisis

[Markus]

Thank God we had a President with a solid miltery back ground,

not a draft dodging embelisher.

CUDA, I agree with your assessment of President Trump, but the way Kennedy handled Cuba was one of the top f*ck-*ps in American foreign policy history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
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