Airship Times

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Photo: Neal/AFP/GettyJimmy Page plans to return to the stage in 2010, but it won’t be alongside the rest of Led Zeppelin. With Robert Plant and Alison Krauss working on the follow-up to the Grammy-winning Raising Sand and John Paul Jones now playing with Josh Homme and Dave Grohl in Them Crooked Vultures, Page is tired [...]  

ARDMORE — The last time he had an aerial misadventure, Marvin Polzien swore he would continue his 10-year quest to fly — and successfully land — a homemade helium blimp.But Wednesday, seven months later, a mechanical failure prompted Polzien, 79, to make an emergency landing in the median of Interstate 35 near Ardmore.Read more on NewsOK.com  

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  

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 [...]  

Ever seen Los Angeles by Zeppelin? Me neither, but how cool does that sound? If you’ve been trying to find something fun and different to do in the next few days, this just might do the trick. Airship Ventures is in town offering various L.A. tours by Zeppelin through this coming Tuesday, November 24th. The Bay [...]  

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.  

As we reach double digits in December the Appvent Calendar sees its second game from developer Craneballs Studios. The first as you may remember was 33rd Division which appeared on December 1st and was very enjoyable. Now on Day 10 Craneballs has made its first ever iPhone game Blimp available for free. The player is a blimp [...]  

John Paul Jones's career since Led Zeppelin has featured some impressive collaborations, none more so than his work with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme in Them Crooked VulturesWhen he was the bassist with globe-bestriding hedonists Led Zeppelin, John Paul Jones was hidden in his bandmates' midst like some medieval scholar at a whirling Odinist stag party. Jimmy Page acquired both a heroin habit and Boleskine House, the remote edifice on the shores...  

Friedrichshafen. Die Zeppelin Universität (ZU) in Friedrichshafen veranstaltet am Freitag, 22. Januar, einen Master-Infotag. Dabei können interessierte Bachelor-Studierende die forschungsorientierten, bilingualen Master-Studiengänge in Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie Politik- und  

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...  

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...  

With examples of David LaChapelle affinity for working with the automotive world seen just recently with his exhibition in Miami titled Cars and Money: New Works, the American photographer takes on a large scale project with Daimler. At the center of this collaborative art meets automotive venture is the brand new Maybach Zeppelin. To set [...]  

An aircraft that combines massive freight capacity, high efficiency and low cost is taking shape in a hangar outside Toledo, Ohio, and could be airborne next year. Dynalifter is part airship, part airplane and the spiritual and engineering successor to Howard Hughes’ never-built Megalifter. It combines the light weight and huge payload of an airship with [...]  

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...