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As the Elswick Works made airships, a large space was required to make the balloons or gasbags for these ships.

The results exposed three leading politicians - Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar - for what they are, simply gasbags. Their success was built on the foundations of deception, falsehood, communal polarisation and crony capitalism.

Gasbags North East is a group for gay or bisexual men and men questioning their sexuality.

The tactic was to spray a Zeppelin with machine gun fire to puncture the gasbags, allowing the hydrogen to escape and then the aeroplane observer would fire incendiary rounds from a Martini carbine into the hull to ignite the highly flammable gas.

Roosevelt's "big government philosophy" and security provided by the United Nations, constituents judged politicians by "expertise and eloquence," not their capability to "outshout other amateur gasbags." With elevated rhetoric, Reagan challenged listeners and viewers to value the "long history of man's relation to man" and his long climb from the "swamp to the stars."

R100 employed conventional technology, including gasbags and reconditioned Rolls-Royce Condor petrol engines.

Is it possible that political gasbags have been blowing hot air?

Coming soon is the annual State of the Union speech, followed rapidly by dozens of gasbags givin' State of the State, State of the City, State of the Snollygoster and state-of-whatever speeches.

GASBAGS On short flights, the CO2 emission per passenger is 0.24kg per mile, falling to 0.18kg per mile on longer trips

Rolt, The Balloonists: The History of the First Aeronauts (Stroud: Sutton, 2006); John Christopher, Balloons at War: Gasbags, Flying Bombs, and Cold War Secrets (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2004).

s ng e LEEANN DEMPSTER has emerged as a refreshing alternative to all those old gasbags who have dominated Hampden committees and boardrooms throughout the country for too long.