This classical image of the USS Los Angeles shows what would occur when a blast of wind beguile the backend of a moored airship . It could literally ferment a 656 - foot large blimp vertical . surprisingly , no one was hurt .
It look like a ludicrously ginormous bomb was about to be drop on top of a radio tower , does n’t it ? But more seriously , it happened because a moth-eaten air front lifted the dirigible ’s fag end before the dirigible could drop around the mast . This 1927 incident showed the risk involved with high mooring line mast , risks that the Navy eventually would address and make good . [ Naval HistoryviaFlickrviaBoingBoing ]
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