Airship Times

Cruising the Past: The Hindenburg. Color video of the great airship. Memories of 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...Read Full Story

Co-Founder and President of Airship Ventures Brian Hall Orlando is the second stop on the Farmers Airship Covering Communities tour, a six-month cross-country journey that will mark the first time a Zeppelin airship has ever barnstormed across the nation. In total, the Farmers Airship will sail in the skies of nearly half of the nation’s states and two dozen communities,including Orlando, are expected to host the Zeppelin for extended stays. We attended the landing of the zeppelin in...Read Full Story

Have you heard of Cepelinai ?   I had earlier posted about ‘blimps’ – again cricket connection and IPL one at that.   Blimps were the inflated balloons used for advertising during IPL 3 in 2010 – MRF were the official blimp sponsor and were on sky at   Mumbai, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Bangalore and Cuttack.   Blimps were filled with helium and were raised up to maximum height of 300m.     This was the rigid version (see more on this : blimp  – and here is something on non-rigid type...Read Full Story

By Claire Bates From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ More than 70 years after the Hindenburg disaster ended the golden airship era, giant blimps will take to the skies again with the launch of the world's largest inflatable craft. The pioneering Bullet 580 is a 235ftlong and 65ft in diameter ship that can lift payloads of 2,000lbs up to 20,000ft in the air. It was inflated this week inside the Garret Coliseum in Alabama - one of the few facilities large enough to host the ship. The process took...Read Full Story

Piloting a zeppelin airship is a rare privilege—and harder than it looks. By Jeff Wise From: http://www.popularmechanics.com/ the author at the controls of the zeppelin eureka Floating through the air 200 feet above the ground, I glide past a cluster of buildings, a stand of trees, the shoreline of a shimmering bay. A golf driving range drifts into view. Four men stop swinging their clubs and stare up, open-mouthed. In an age that's jaded by wall-to-wall entertainment, they're experiencing an...Read Full Story

On October 22nd, just a day after the first manned flight of an electric multicopter took place in Germany, California’s JP Aerospace achieved an aeronautical feat of its own – it broke the record for the world’s highest airship flight. Remotely controlled from the ground, the all-volunteer group’s Tandem twin-balloon airship reportedly ascended to an altitude of 95,085 feet (28,982 meters). That’s almost four miles (6.4 km) higher than any airship has gone before… Continue Reading New...Read Full Story

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...Read Full Story

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...Read Full Story

It’s not news that cargo planes aren’t the greenest way to transport heavy loads, but some companies are working on other ways to send goods through the air. Could blimps make a comeback as a greener cargo carrier? Speaking to an audience at the World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment in Oxford, England, scientist David King recently predicted that helium-powered ships could be carrying freight within a decade. It is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Companies like Lockheed Martin and...Read Full Story

More than 70 years after the Hindenburg disaster ended the golden airship era, giant blimps will take to the skies again with the launch of the world's largest inflatable craft . The pioneering Bullet 580 is a 235ftlong and 65ft in diameter ship that can lift payloads of 2,000lbs up to 20,000ft in the air. It was inflated this week inside the Garret Coliseum in Alabama - one of the few facilities large enough to host the ship. The process took the developers at E-Green Technologies just over...Read Full Story