D Is for Dirigible - Episode 36

Will spies make off with microfilm blueprints of the magnificent Airship Islington? Can Zildjian prevent a zeppelin attack on the aeroplane factory? What’s the Cockney rhyming slang for parachute? Find out!

D Is for Dirigible, episode 36 of This Gun in My Hand, was erected and inflated by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who wouldn't like to ride in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon? This Gun in My Hand! 

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Show Notes:
1. I’m not sure how often or in what era Brits used the phrase “old thing” as they might say “old boy” or “old chap.” Or did anyone really use the expression outside of Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (1970s BBC tv series)?

2. My job used to be acquiring periodicals for a company that reproduced them on microfilm. I love how every spy movie for a decade or two featured heroes and villains fighting over microfilm. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the only people using it were spies.

3. The Islington’s passenger’s name is not intended to make you think of Mike Rowe, the tv villain and apologist for capitalism. I needed that part of the name to fit the pun. As always, “The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.”

4. “Cabbage root” is almost certainly not Cockney rhyming slang for “parachute.”

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/

Sound Effect Title: Airship propeller engine
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ilm0player/sounds/578181/

Sound Effect Title: R10-56-Footsteps on Metal Staircase.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480641/

Sound Effect Title: flak blast 2.wav
By Piotr123
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Piotr123/sounds/551532/

Sound Effect Title: Fireworks - Whistle/Whine
By marklaukkanen
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/marklaukkanen/sounds/580751/

Sound Effect Title: explosion bomb
By Jurgerius
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Jurgerius/sounds/473819/

Sound Effect Title: wind.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nelstayade/sounds/525292/

Music Title (start of fake ad): "Windy Winds - Intro A”
Jay Man - OurMusicBox
https://www.our-music-box.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Sound Effect Title: Flock Seagulls
Recorded by Daniel Simion
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/2193-Flock-Seagulls.html

Sound Effect Title: Lake Waves 1.wav
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/67883/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified version of a drawing from The Illustrated London News, April 11, 1936 (Public Domain).