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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.
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“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.
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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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Have you ever wanted to ride in a Zeppelin. Coming this fall to the San Francisco Bay Area Airship Ventures is planning on giving you the chance. Airship Ventures Inc., founded 2007 in California, is a privately owned corporation formed with the objective of bringing Zeppelin NT airships to the USA for "flightseeing" tours, media and science mission operations. Initially based with one ship in California, the company intends to eventually have a number of airships throughout the USA. The... Read Full Story
Long Endurance Multi-INT Vehicle: Floating sentinel
From PopSci.com:
Military aircraft is designed to stay aloft for weeks at a time.
Since the airship glory days of the early part of the century, blimps have certainly lost some of their cachet, relegated to hovering over sporting events and not much else. However, the Army is about to test launch an unmanned hybrid airship to be used for surveillance missions in Afghanistan.
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Zeppelin Eureka will be in Long Beach from Sept. 2-9. Image courtesy of Airship Ventures.
Airship Ventures Zeppelin Eureka — which at 246 feet in length is the world’s largest airship — will return to Long Beach Airport on Sept. 2 for a week of commercial sightseeing flights, and we’re giving away a pair of free tickets.
The tickets will go to the person who best answers the following question: “If you could fly over anything you wanted to in the world in Eureka, what would it be?”
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Airship Ventures Inc.'s zeppelin airships will start flying scheduled flights starting Friday 10-31-08. Riders will be treated to a bird's-eye view of Napa and Sonoma wine country, the Big Sur coastline, San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area. The cabin holds 12 passengers and two crew members, and tickets start at $495 per person for an one-hour ride. Despite the slumping economy, the company hopes to sell about 15,000 tickets a year in the Bay Area, aiming to attract passengers for... Read Full Story
No doubt you will all have recognised the London City Hall . But have you noticed the Zeppelin airship in the sky ? See "Zeppelin airships to fly over London again" article in The Times if you want to know more, but don't rush, this is too late for this year if you missed this summer's 6-week-special (see also staroverlondon website ). To date there are no plans to come back next year however, due to its success, one never knows... Read Full Story
