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The Zeppelin Eureka from Airship Ventures offers the only commercial passenger airship operation in the United States. It offers flight-seeing tours above San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Monterey, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles. Video by Jeff Amlotte / Los Angeles Times  

Singapore Tourism Organization in cooperation with Zeppelin Airship World wants to allow tourists to see the city from the air while flying in the Zeppelin.Contributor: Slobodan GregoricPublished: Nov 18, 2009  

Filed under: News, Video29 years ago today, one of the most important and influential rock bands in the world announced they were calling it quits. The members of Led Zeppelin were still shaken up by the death of drummer John Bonham, and shared the news with the world in a brief statement: "We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide...  

The latest thing of beauty to emerge from the Ukrainian cave of wonders operated by Bob Basset, a collective of steampunk leatherworkers, is this "Flapping Push Toy": a leather steampunk airship with flapping bat-wings, brass portholes, and intricate gears within. Bravo! Flapping Push Toy/Игрушка-толкалка, крыльями махалка Previously:Cthulhu mask on eBay - Boing Boing Leather fetish pilot mask - Boing Boing Leather Cthuhlu mask from steampunk...  

The zeppelin is back and filled with non-explosive helium gas. A privately run company based at the San Francisco-area Moffett Field has returned the German-made craft to California skies. Although airships such as the Goodyear blimp are a common sight in the Los Angeles area, blimps are smaller than zeppelins and carry only six passengers.  

Playing with Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones in the new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures is a dream come true for Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl, the singer/dummer tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive Q&A in our next issue. Check out photos of more supergroups, from Cream to Audioslave. Grohl’s Zeppelin worship goes all the way back [...]  

The 246-foot zeppelin Eureka, which can carry 13 passengers and a crew of two, flies over Long Beach Harbor, with the Queen Mary in the background. The German-made airship, which is filled with nonexplosive helium gas, is permanently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will offer a limited number of Southland scenic tours out of Long Beach Airport. The last time something like this was seen in Los Angeles was 1929, when the Graf Zeppelin...  

KELLYTON, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--E-Green Technologies, Inc., a privately-held company, today announced the successful acquisition of Newmarket, Ontario based 21st Century Airships. 21st Century is the world’s leading airship research and development company, with a strong IP portfolio of 18 patents, issued and pending, which protects the Company’s airship technology. This collection of proprietary technology was developed over a period 15...  

Funky Shiitake Mushrooms, a high school design team from Fremont, CA, have created a low cost airship they call Skittles the Second. Skittles is a remote control robotic blimp, complete with 4 reversible propellers, wireless video, and 2.4 a GHz remote control. Somewhere between a regular RC  blimp and a Predator Drone, Skittles and FSM [...]  

A SINGAPORE-based company has secured the exclusive rights to bring in Zeppelin airships - among the world's largest flying machines.Zeppelin Airship World (ZAW), started by German permanent resident Armin Spenninger, has clinched a deal to 'assemble, operate, market and distribute' the new Zeppelin NT airships in Singapore and Malaysia.  

Okay, Mr. Saboteur. You're not going to listen to reason, are you? We asked nicely -- so very nicely -- that you stop blowing up those beautiful, elegant and endangered dirigibles. However, the latest batch of screenshots from your self-titled game have revealed that you haven't heeded our advice, and continue to detonate airships at the drop of your dusty, brown flat cap. That's how you want to do this, huh? Well, you can expect our harshly...  

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, UKAlex Turner has revealed to Spinner the Arctic Monkeys have been preparing for their huge UK shows with a Led Zeppelin "onslaught". He told us: "It feels like the last couple of months in dressing rooms we've not listened to much other than Led Zeppelin. That gets played every day. It's a constant."Describing the legendary rock titans' music as "the perfect pep talk" before playing their UK arena shows...  

NASA launched its first airborne science mission aboard a zeppelin earlier this week when scientists took off from Moffett Field to study environmental conditions in the Bay Area. Read the full story here http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news/show_story.php?id=14090 posted Thursday, October 8, 2009, 2:45 PM  

killbox commented on Kitson Harvey's blog post 'Morning Fix: Dirigible'Robert S, once again, blimps are not dirigibles they are blimps(non rigid), and the above mentioned altitude 9185ft is from the Specifications on the ZeppelinNT Factory specifications. In Response to this thread I contacted Airship Ventures(opera...  

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