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Cruising the Past awards Dan Grossman’s AIRSHIPS.NET as website of the month. Grossman’s excellent site tells the story of the airship Hindenburg. She was the fastest way to “cross the pond” during the 1930s. 2 and 1/2 days! And the most expensive way to go! The Airship Hindenburg was the last great passenger zeppelin. 1937 Video of the Zeppelin Hindenburg - new color footage of the airship, including the Hindenburg burning. We would like to thank Dan Grossman for permitting us to use many of the photos from his excellent website on the Hindenburg. Click here to visit his fascinating story of the great ... Read Full Story
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Click here to view the embedded video. “This is like a yacht, it sails so smoothly.” So said Brian Hall as the founder of Airship Ventures stood inside the gondola of Zeppelin Eureka as the world’s largest airship visited Orange County for the first time on Thursday. The 246-foot long semi-rigid airship, which is about 52 feet longer than the Goodyear blimp Spirit of America, cruised over Seal Beach and Sunset Beach during a media tour that began at Long Beach Airport. The Seal Beach Pier and Anaheim Bay, as seen through the cockpit of Zeppelin Eureka. Image by Gary Robbins, The Register. CLICK ... Read Full Story
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For this weekend's Steam Powered: The California Steampunk Convention , the band Abney Park and Airship Ventures have teamed up to offer dirigible rides to conference-goers (for $785 a ticket). Airship Ventures just brought one of their Zeppelin NTs over from Germany and it will be moored at Moffett Field. MAKE contributor Todd Lappin was lucky enough to get a ride on the ship and posted a flight report on Telstar Logistics: Operated by a startup called Airship Ventures, the Zeppelin NT will be based out of Moffett Field, Calfornia -- a fitting home, as Moffett was built by the US Navy during the ... Read Full Story
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Eureka, which rarely moves faster than 30 mph, is shown flying over San Francisco. Image courtesy of Airship Ventures. The Zeppelin Eureka — which is billed as the world’s largest commercial airship at 246 feet in length — will fly over north Orange County and other parts of Southern California in late May when the airship makes its first visit to region. Eureka’s owner, Airship Ventures of Mountain View in Northern California , says in an advisory that it will land the Zeppelin at Long Beach Airport on May 20 and will offer sightseeing flights May 22-25, some of which will track over Seal ... Read Full Story
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Airship Ventures, a zeppelin company that has been leasing space at Moffett Field outside San Francisco since 2008, now is being used by NASA as a platform for remote sensing and atmospheric science measurements. Airship Ventures leases its space at Moffett Field, which is run by NASA’s Ames Research Center. The Center’s Earth Science Division has begun collaboration with the company to take advantage of the airship’s stability, maneuveribility and ability to fly at low altitude for sustained periods of time. Read Full Story
The Royal Thai Army Aviation was recently equipped with an Aeros 40D airship for surveillance duties but the aircraft is useless as the essential cameras were not bought.  
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Lockheed P-791. A blimp, not really. Can spend up to 3 weeks at an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,100 m) with a 2,500 pound (1,134 kg) payload of surveilance equipment by the middle of 2011. The LEMV is a hybrid airship - it's heavier than air, 80% of its lift coming from buoyancy and 20% from aerodynamics. Propulsion comes from six thrusters - three per side - powered by individual turbo-diesels for take-off and climb, and electrically from a...  
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A Get the Led Out: The American Led Zeppelin pre-sale password is now available: While this special pre-sale opportunity exists, you can buy Get the Led Out: The American Led Zeppelin tickets before the public!The free pre-sale code for Get the Led Out: The American Led Zeppelins concert in New York, NY only works for a limited time. This could be your best chance to get your tickets to see Get the Led Out: The American Led Zeppelin. Here are...  
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[by John MacNeill] Goo goo g’joob! In April 2005, “USN, DARPA See Blimps & HULAs Rising”, looked at a range of projects on the drawing board, including the Walrus... [summary]  
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One year ago this past Sunday, the world’s largest airship, the Zeppelin Eureka, sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco and began offering flightseeing tours. In celebration of this milestone, Airship Ventures, the only passenger airship operation in the United States, is re-offering its most popular promotion on all regularly priced tours. Just in time for holiday gift-giving and family...  
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Compact version of airship-shaped iPod speaker Bowers & Wilkins has announced the UK launch of the "Zeppelin Mini", a compact version of the airship-shaped original. "Zeppelin Mini attains the same high standards in sound quality and design", promises B&W.; "It is reduced in size, not in sound, and has amazing volume levels for such a diminutive package". New features include an updated docking arm and the addition of...  
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"Anti-government" is as anti-government does. Mark Pitcavage, resident gasbag at ADL.I first introduced Mark Pitcavage, ADL's attack blimp, in this post back in March. Back in the 90s, I crossed electronic swords often with this puke, who used to get paid by the FBI for all the names of militia folk he could glean by trolling the Internet. Back then, this was his logo:Now the attack blimp has delivered another pre-emptive prevarication...  
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