Airship Times

The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Queen , Courtney Chou Lee, 17, and Royal Court took to the skies today aboard the Goodyear blimp, Spirit of America, for what has become an annual ritual in advance of the ...  

Pasadena Tournament of Roses Queen®, Courtney Chou Lee and Royal Court, Princesses Mary Gaule, 17, Jasmine Jenkins, 17, Bridget McDonald, 18, Molly Novell, 18, Lauren Valenzuela, 18, and Quinn Young, 17, will take to the air aboard the world famous Goodyear blimp.  

Dear Captain: First let me say that I respect your years of training and the work you do every weekend.  

Flashback: The National Security blimp hovers above the Laventille Shrine at Laventille Road, Laventille.  

Photo By Submitted Elbert Excavating of Elyria brings the Goodyear blimp gondola to the MAPS aircraft display hangar in Green. Photo By Submitted The gondola sits beside other planes inside the hangar where it will be on permanent display at the aviation museum.  

California-based "airship ventures" is now offering tours on the country's only operating zeppelin. Zeppelins were first made in the late 19th-century for commercial transportation and military operations.  

Alexandra Hall sprays champagne to dedicate an airship imported from Germany by Airship Ventures, which she founded with her husband Brian Hall .  

A resurgence of the era of the Zeppelin is under way on the Moffett Field tarmac, 71 years after the Hindenburg cast the last airship shadow over the United States before going down in flames. Airship Ventures, founded by Los Gatos residents Alexandra and Brian Hall, imported a 246-foot-long...  

My vehicle has a first name: Besides the Goodyear blimp, it's hard to think of a vehicle more garishly awe-inspiring than the Oscar Mayer...  

An enthusiastic crowd gathered along the Moffett Field airstrip Friday to witness the dedication ceremony of the first zeppelin to fly in the United States in more than 70 years.The Airship Ventures Inc.  

My CNET News colleague James Martin last month was among the first to ride in the new Zeppelin NT , which start-up Airship Ventures is basing out of Moffett Field at NASA Ames Research Center near Mountain ...  

Friday's event was an odd mixture of Moffett Field nostalgia and excitement over the start-up nature of Airship Ventures and its Eureka. Here, Eureka stands behind a large poster of historical photographs, placed on the tarmac, of the original ...  

GREEN The gondola from a Goodyear blimp found a home at MAPS Air Museum on Friday. The pilot and passenger compartment from the airship "Spirit of Akron" — donated by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. — is expected to be on display within a week or two, said Ken Alexander, a director at MAPS...  

Two red hot American advertising icons, the Goodyear blimp, which first took flight in 1925, and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, which first shifted into gear in 1936, met for the first time Nov.  

NASA ARC Internal Memo: Airship Dedication and Moffett 75th Anniversary