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i i The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. May 29,1985 13 DURHAM BUILDING SUPPLIES o .0 It 0 0 mp z ! // Visit DURHAM BUILDING SUPPLIES every Saturday between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. and SAVE 10% on all list priced items (excluding sale items). Plumbing - Hardware - Flooring - Electrical - Lumber For all your Fencing Spruce Pressure Treated Pine 1"x6"x6' --$1.20 1"x6"x5'-- 1.00 2" x4" x8'-- 1.69 2" x6"x8'-- 2.80 1"x6"x6' -- $1.86 1"x6"x5' -- 1.55 2"x4"x8'r-- 2.88 2" x 6" x 8' -- ,4.48 4"x4"x8'-- 5.92 •M If, OlY/MPÎC WE4THERMC STAIN Olympic Stain Buy 3 and Get 4 SAVE NOW!!! LANDSCAPING Patio Slabs • Cobblestone Scalloped garden edging Decorative white stone chips Red bark chips • Garden tools now 10% OFF Special 8' x 8' Mini Barn ONLY \ $ 285 Comes complete with: Pre-fab trusses, 7 /i6" aspenite (sheeting), hardware, No. 1 pine (trim), shingles, construction grade spruce (framing). Barns also available in: 8' x 10'; 8' x 12'; 10' x 10'; 10' x 12' Sale ends Saturday, June 8th, 1985 SUMMER STORE HOURS p.m. Saturday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Mon. - Wed. 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. - 9 e DURHAM BUILDING SUPPLIES Home improvement building centre 164 Base Line Rd. E. 623-6341 Highway No. 2 </) rl Durham Building Base Line Rd. W. n □ Highway 401 ] Bowmanville Goodyear Blimp Arrives This Sunday She gets plenty of exercise, but it doesn't make one bit of difference in her mammoth measurements, which are a disproportionate 192-59-50 - feet, that is! This rotund lady is, of course, the airship America, currently visiting this area. She is owned and operated by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. To explain her dimensions, the America is 192 feet long, 59 feet high and 50 feet wide. Her sausage shape is maintained by 202,700 cubic feet of helium inside the rubber-coated polyester polyester fabric envelope. Power is supplied by twin, six-cylinder, 210 hp. engines giving the blimp a cruising speed of 35 m.p.h. and a maximum maximum speed of 50 m.p.h. Flight altitude is normally between 1,000 and 3,000 feet, with a maximum ceiling of 10,000 feet. For "exercise," the America America and her sister ships, the Columbia and Enterprise, travel more than 100,000 air miles a year as public relations relations ambassadors for -the company. The fourth Goodyear Goodyear blimp -- the Europa -- was constructed in 1972 and is presently conducting operations operations as the company's goodwill goodwill ambassador to Western Europe and England. The America spends six months of the year at its winter base in Houston, Texas. The other six months she "barnstorms" throughout the nation. The Columbia, based in Los Angeles, the Enterprise in Pompano Beach, and the Europa in Rome, Italy, have schedules similar to that of the America. Each of the airships carries approximately 8,000 passengers passengers annually, a remarkable figure when the limited capacity capacity of only six passengers at one time is considered. Goodyear airships, past and present, have operated ' for more than five decades without a single passenger fatality. The guests who have been for a ride on a Goodyear blimp are presidents, congressmen, city and state officials, astronauts, astronauts, authors, and scientists. A feature of the America is the "Super Skytacular" night sign on the sides of the envelope, envelope, used to flash both public service messages and Goodyear Goodyear sales promotion messages messages to after-dark audiences on the ground below. This lighted sign, first of its kind to employ color and animation, animation, can be read from a distance of one mile with the airship operating at an altitude altitude of 1,000 feet and with normal visual conditions prevailing. prevailing. In addition to serving Goodyear's Goodyear's own public relations programs, the airships also are in great demand by the nation's news media, particularly particularly television networks, for use as aerial camera platforms platforms for special events. The Goodyear blimps have carried cameramen over just about every major city in the United States. Exciting and unusual aerial pictures obtained obtained from the blimps have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States or have been beamed to television viwers across the country. Events over which the Goodyear Goodyear blimps have appeared include the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl football games, the Indianapolis, Ontario and Daytona 500-mile auto races, the America's Cup yacht races and baseball's World Series, just to name a few. Maintaining an airship is no simple task. The America is staffed with a crew of 22 - five pilots, a public relations representative representative and 16 crewmen, some of whom are engine, radio, electronics electronics and structural experts. Witli four specially-equipped specially-equipped ground-support vehicles, the America crew is almost self-sustaining in the field, as far as operation and maintenance maintenance of the blimp arc concerned. concerned. Moving from city to city, this caravan of vehicles travels by highway, with the blimp flying overhead. A bus, specifically designed for the operation, serves as a flight center and communications communications headquarters on tour. It is equipped with a two-way aviation radio, all administrative administrative aids necessary for the operation and a special mast for landing the blimp if an emergency should arise during a cross-country mission. mission. A large tractor-trailer rig serves as a mobile maintenance maintenance facility. The tractor unit includes a machine shop, night sign and television equipment lab. The trailer also carries the main mast, spare parts ami supplementary supplementary equipment, A passenger van and sedan round out the rolling stock and ore used for ground liaison work and crew transportation, Solely is the primary factor in the overall airship operation. operation. Although it is possible to fly In some types of adverse weather, the America I'oiiiiiins moored to her mast when there Is ruin and-or wind in excess of 20 m.p.h,