The Airshipventures Blog has been called Up Ship! ever since. But now they also have a real UP-ship with the new envelope branding that was revealed today. It is featuring the word UP (the title of Disney Pixar's new animated movie) on each side of the envelope with the floating house of the main character of the movie and the company names Disney and PIXAR at the stern of the ship and the words "Only in Theaters" underneath the giant UP. Just the word UP is 78ft across and in total there are over 700 decal sheets with approximately 5000 sqft of decal material. It took four people four days to apply the branding which is provided by the team from Airborne Grafix in Germany who have been designing and producing the brandings of many campaigns of the Zeppelin NT worldwide. The decals will be off by the end of June so hurry to snap a picture of the new branding and send it to Airship Ventures. I find the branding absolutely stunning and a great example of how airship advertising can be, it's really one of a kind. It's the first advertising contract of the Zeppelin NT in the US but I am sure after seeing how impressive the airship is there will be many to follow. Remember the airship will be flying down to L.A. so you will have a chance to catch it there too.
But Airshipventures is not the only Lighter-Than-Air business that is contracted to promote the movie. Jonathan Trappe from ClusterBalloon.com is doing a North America tour with two armchairs that are lifted up with balloons, just like the house in the movie. One chair tours the west coast the other the east coast. Go to the Clusterballoon.com Website for a schedule and to volunteer to help out when they are in your area. Today and tomorrow May 8th the west coast tour is in San Francisco, would be fun to see a picture of both the cluster balloon and the airship. Thanks to Dan Nachbar for the tip on the cluster balloon event.
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Zeppelin Airship make trip from San Francisco to LA in May
Airship Ventures continues to expand their operations and has some great tours planned for this season. One of the probably most remarkable and unique was just announced 2 days ago. The Zeppelin NT will make a tour from San Francisco along the Californian coast down to Los Angeles, around memorial day weekend. It's the first time that Airship Ventures offers such a long tour which will take 8-10 hours according to their website. Check out the Airship Ventures website for more information on their current Tours, Upcoming Events and the Flight Calendar. Below we republish the complete press release which is also available via Marketwire. For contact information please have a look at their Contacts page.
Airship Ventures Announces Historic Voyages Between San Francisco and Los Angeles
California Cruises Are the First-Ever Flights to Carry Passengers Between the Cities by Zeppelin
MOFFETT FIELD, CA--(Marketwire - April 29, 2009) - Continuing to celebrate its second season of operations, Airship Ventures announced today that in May, Eureka, the largest airship in the world, will make the first-ever passenger flights between San Francisco and Los Angeles by a Zeppelin. Bookending the Memorial Day holiday and a special week of Los Angeles tours, Eureka's first California Airship Cruises will allow passengers to enjoy spectacular views of California's Coastline and Central Valley as they sail in comfort 1,000 feet above the sights. Weather permitting, departure is scheduled for May 20 with a return on May 26.
"This is the first time since the Graf Zeppelin passed through California in 1929 on its round-the-world trip that sightseers have ever had the opportunity to view Central California and Los Angeles from a passenger Zeppelin," noted Airship Ventures Director of Sales Joanne Fedeyko. "Our inaugural California Airship Cruises and Los Angeles Airship Tours are quite literally historic occasions and they exemplify the type of unique experiences our passengers enjoy everywhere we fly."
In addition to a week of California Airship Cruises and Los Angeles Airship Tours, Airship Ventures will continue to offer scenic flights above the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas and continue its most popular promotions; highlights include:To book a flight-seeing experience, or to view Airship Ventures' complete fight schedule, visit the Airship Ventures Web site at www.airshipventures.com, or call 650.969.8100.
- Flight-seeing-for-Two: Share an airship adventure and soar above the sights with someone special with the limited-time Flight-seeing-for-Two promotion. Buy one tour ticket or gift certificate and save 50% on a second. Some restrictions apply.
- Mother's Day Flights: Give mom a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get away from it all with an Airship Ventures gift certificate or Mother's Day tour. Admire the views with mom on board Eureka, or wave to her from the ground as she relaxes at 1,000 feet above San Francisco or Monterey.
About Airship Ventures, Inc.
Founded in 2007 in California, Airship Ventures, Inc. operates the only passenger airship operation in the United States, featuring Eureka, the world's largest airship. At 246 feet in length, the Zeppelin is longer than a Boeing 747 and more than 50 feet longer than the largest blimp. Based out of Moffett Field, Eureka also flies from Oakland and Monterey.
The Zeppelin's spacious cabin comfortably accommodates one pilot, one flight attendant, and 12 passengers with luxury features including oversized panoramic windows, an onboard restroom with window, and a 180-degree rear observation window and "love seat" that wraps the entire aft of the cabin. Using the inert gas helium for lift, and vectored thrust engines for flight, Zeppelin NTs have been flying in Germany and Japan since 1997 with an unparalleled safety record.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Alex Hall from Airship Ventures tells their story in an Interview - Updated
Just found this on YouTube. John's World a public access TV show from San Francisco interviewed Alex Hall from Airship Ventures about the Zeppelin how their business started and much more. Check out the 3 part 30 Minute Interview below or jump to our Playlist on YouTube
Thanks to John's World for putting the interview up and sharing it on YouTube
Links:
Update:
Well the video was made private, on request. Apologies dear readers this post is worth nothing now, since you can't see the video. You now have to be a friend of John's World in order to see it.
Update 2:
The videos are back online. So enjoy.
Thanks to John's World for putting the interview up and sharing it on YouTube
Links:
- Blog posts about Airship Ventures
- Playlist of the Interview
- Airship Ventures Website
- Up Ship! - the Airship Ventures Blog
- YouTube Channel of John's World
Update:
Well the video was made private, on request. Apologies dear readers this post is worth nothing now, since you can't see the video. You now have to be a friend of John's World in order to see it.
Update 2:
The videos are back online. So enjoy.
Monday, March 23, 2009
KQED - QUEST Segment on Airships
KQED is a public broadcasting station for Northern California, one of their shows is QUEST a "multimedia series about the people behind San Francisco Bay Area science and environmental issues" it combines traditional media like TV and radio with new media formats like a website containing a blog and audio podcasts as well as video podcasts. This current season opened with a segment about airships, looking back at the USS Macon (ZRS-5) disaster and looking at the Zeppelin NT based at Moffett Field and operated by Airship Ventures.
QUEST on KQED Public Media.
To get a better version of the Video jump to Zeppelins Resurrected page on the QUEST website. You can also download the 80MB MPEG4 Video here. If you don't know how to watch MPEG-4/h.264 download VLC Player or Apples QuickTime/iTunes, both are freeware and play M4V files.
You should also check out the Zeppelins Resurrected page contains also additional content and links, like this nice slide show of photos taken during the shooting of the segment on the QUEST page.
QUEST on KQED Public Media.
To get a better version of the Video jump to Zeppelins Resurrected page on the QUEST website. You can also download the 80MB MPEG4 Video here. If you don't know how to watch MPEG-4/h.264 download VLC Player or Apples QuickTime/iTunes, both are freeware and play M4V files.
You should also check out the Zeppelins Resurrected page contains also additional content and links, like this nice slide show of photos taken during the shooting of the segment on the QUEST page.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Airship Ventures gets new cash
On Feb 21st. SFGate.com ran an article called "Fresh cash windfall for zeppelin" about Airship Ventures the San Francisco company that recently purchased a Zeppelin NT and brought it to the US. The article describes the current situation of Airship Ventures and how the economic downturn affected them. According to the article they got another round of investments to keep the company aloft and operating. But even though times are difficult, the article mentions that Airship Ventures will soon crack the 1,500 passengers mark and has 800 more booked flights. That's a total of 2300 passengers with a lowest ticket price of 495$ the minimum revenue that Airship Ventures will have made is 2300 x 495$ = 1,138,500$ If you remember that the airship arrived in October that is only 5 months of flying in the winter, to me that is quite the accomplishment. Congratulations and best wishes to Airship Ventures, that the passenger numbers will increase as the weather gets warmer and that the birthing pains will soon be history.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Win a ride on the Airship Ventures Zeppelin
Monday, January 5, 2009
Catching up on 2008 - Zeppelin Press Release on the NT#4 being shipped to the US
© Airbus Deutschland/ H. BansemerNow here the Pressrelease from September 27th 2008 in English and German
Airship Ventures Zeppelin to Cross Atlantic to the U.S.
Here the German press release:
Zeppelin NT überquert den Atlantik
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Airship Ventures Promovideo on Youtube
Just found this promotion video featuring the Airship Ventures Zeppelin on YouTube. Enjoy!
[Update 081112] Unfortunately the video has been removed from YouTube, if you happen to know another source let me know and I will put it back up, until then sorry for the inconvenience.
[Update 081112] Unfortunately the video has been removed from YouTube, if you happen to know another source let me know and I will put it back up, until then sorry for the inconvenience.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Lot's of Zeppelin NT Pictures
Telstar Logistics has a very nice article about the new Zeppelin in the US, read it here, they write about the history, the technology and their experience on board the airship. Check out the article called Flight Report: Aloft in a Zeppelin Airship. They also have a very nice large gallery (91) of pictures on flick. Here is the link to the Slideshow.
I also found a new Pool on flickr featuring a few more Zeppelin Pictures. It's the "Modern Zeppelin" Pool, check it out on Flickr
I also found a new Pool on flickr featuring a few more Zeppelin Pictures. It's the "Modern Zeppelin" Pool, check it out on Flickr
Airshipventures Buzzing all over the Web
Well it doesn't happen every day that a Zeppelin arrives in the US and of course all the Media went crazy about this great new Zeppelin NT which has graced European and japanese skies for quite a while now.
Here are just some of the reports from today also some video from Cnet. But of course don't forget the 3 Sites by Airship Ventures:
All three pages are loaded with content to discover.
News:
Do you know of any good articles videos or blogposts about Airship Ventures, add them in the comments of this Blogpost.
Here are just some of the reports from today also some video from Cnet. But of course don't forget the 3 Sites by Airship Ventures:
All three pages are loaded with content to discover.
News:
- CNN.com - Zeppelins return to the skies in San Francisco
- pressdemocrat.com - The zeppelin is coming, or is it?
- The Tech Herald - California company offers Zeppelin sight-seeing tours
- Aero-News Network - Airship Ventures Zeppelin Arrives At Its New Home In CA
- Mountain View Voice - Up ship!
- San Francisco Chronicle - Zeppelin taking to the skies over Bay Area
- WIRED - It's Hard up Here for a Blimp
- abc - Zeppelin to begin passenger flights this week
- KLIV - AIRSHIP COMES TO SILICON VALLEY
Videos:
Do you know of any good articles videos or blogposts about Airship Ventures, add them in the comments of this Blogpost.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Airship Ventures Zeppelin getting ready to fly
We reported two days ago that the Zeppelin NT had reached the US. It is now unloaded from the dock ship and the empennage and engines are being mounted back on the ship. Check out the posts from the Airship Ventures Blog to see many pictures of the ship arriving, the Zeppelin being offloaded, and much more.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Zeppelin NT#4 is in Cardington
We had mentioned in one of our previous posts that the Zeppelin will be in Cardington before starting on it's cruise to the Netherlands. This is the first time since 1930 that a Zeppelin visits Cardington according to John Christopher from Zeppelintours. The Zeppelin arrived safely from London on August 21st at 17:38 according to Alexandra Hall from Airship Ventures
The Zeppelin is scheduled to leave Cardington on Wednesday. There was a press presentation scheduled on Tuesday according to Arnold Nayler,donät know if it happened.
As soon as the Zeppelin arrived in Cardington it was brought into the hangar and the Stella Artois branding was removed and replaced. Who is the new sponsor? We don't know but maybe this picture and this one allow for some speculation. The Zeppelin will fly from Cardington to the Netherlands and will then be transported with a Ship called Combi Dock 1 to North America. To read more about the Ship go to the Combi-Lift website check out the 3D presentation it's quite impressive. The ship will probably leave from Rotterdam or somewhere close to Rotterdam, since this is where the Zeppelin will be flying to in the next week. The question then remains were will the Zeppelin arrive in the US. According to Ryan Myers from "The Beaumont Enterprise", the Zeppelin will arrive at the Port of Beaumont around September 26th will then fly from the port to Southeast Texas Regional Airport, stay there for about 3 days before flying to San Francisco. This information is not confirmed by Airshipventures so pure speculation and rumor at this time. Here are the two articles that Ryan Myers wrote: Article 1 and Article 2
And last but not least Alex Hall from Airshipventures was interviewed on NHPRs Word of Mouth on August 4th. You can listen to the interview by going to the website and downloading the MP3 file of the radio show. Fast forward to Minute 25:30 where the whole 10 Minute interview starts.
Jump over to the Airshipventures Blog to get lots and lots of pictures of the Zeppelin in Cardington.
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The Zeppelin is scheduled to leave Cardington on Wednesday. There was a press presentation scheduled on Tuesday according to Arnold Nayler,donät know if it happened.
As soon as the Zeppelin arrived in Cardington it was brought into the hangar and the Stella Artois branding was removed and replaced. Who is the new sponsor? We don't know but maybe this picture and this one allow for some speculation. The Zeppelin will fly from Cardington to the Netherlands and will then be transported with a Ship called Combi Dock 1 to North America. To read more about the Ship go to the Combi-Lift website check out the 3D presentation it's quite impressive. The ship will probably leave from Rotterdam or somewhere close to Rotterdam, since this is where the Zeppelin will be flying to in the next week. The question then remains were will the Zeppelin arrive in the US. According to Ryan Myers from "The Beaumont Enterprise", the Zeppelin will arrive at the Port of Beaumont around September 26th will then fly from the port to Southeast Texas Regional Airport, stay there for about 3 days before flying to San Francisco. This information is not confirmed by Airshipventures so pure speculation and rumor at this time. Here are the two articles that Ryan Myers wrote: Article 1 and Article 2
And last but not least Alex Hall from Airshipventures was interviewed on NHPRs Word of Mouth on August 4th. You can listen to the interview by going to the website and downloading the MP3 file of the radio show. Fast forward to Minute 25:30 where the whole 10 Minute interview starts.
Jump over to the Airshipventures Blog to get lots and lots of pictures of the Zeppelin in Cardington.
If you like our Blog please subscribe you can do so via email or in a feed reader like Bloglines. Subscriptions are of course completely free and you get new articles automatically delivered to you. Also let us know what you think of us and our articles send us an email to airshipworld at gmail dot com or leave a message in the comments. You can also participate in the Forum and exchange your thought with other readers.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The Zeppelin will come to the Netherlands
© ZET- The Zeppelin Cruise page of Zeppelintours, John Christopher's non stop shop for flights with the Zeppelin. You can book directly through them.
- Zeppelinvlucht.nl - the homepage of Aerwin about the Zeppelin Flights, unfortunately in dutch, so jump to the auto translated English version here
- Zeppelin Europe Tours with additional background information and a map of the tour.
If you can't quite afford the 6500€(incl tax, hotels, meals, transfers) for the cruise the Cruise the next stop of the Zeppelin might be more for you. The Zeppelin will fly from Rotterdam until September 8th 2008 and offer round trips similar to those offered in London. Similar to London there is a number of different options available to fit every pocket. Starting with flight of 35 minutes for € 270,- going to 60 minutes flights for € 450,- and topping of with a 90 minutes flight for € 675,-. To find out more about the flights check Aerwins Homepage(in dutch) or have a look at the Zeppelintours Website for contact information and some pictures of last years flights. The flights over Rotterdam are a continuation of flights that were done last year in the Netherlands, some might remember our post and the unique branding of the Zeppelin with the highway number "N470" all this is of course the lead up to the great day when the Zeppelin NT is finally shipped to the US we reported earlier this year about this. I personally believe that the Zeppelin will be shipped from Rotterdam but this is just speculation on my side. It's good to see the Zeppelin NT #4 continuing the success story of it's older brothers and we wish Airship Ventures only the best for their operation in the US starting this fall.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Great 8 Minutes video of the Zeppelin over London - [Updated: and another 3 minutes]
I just found a great great Video of the Zeppelin flying over London on YouTube. It has been online for just a few hours and has only been watched 19 times as of the time I write this. So whats so great and why is it a must watch for every Zeppelin Fan. Well because it is 8 Minutes long, the longest video till now that I have seen of the London flights. It starts out with the Zeppelin showing once again it's unsurpassed ground handling qualities. Following lot of scenes from within the Zeppelin so you can see everything in great detail and you get to experience the introduction that the copilot does when the airship lifts of. Finishing with some nice shots of London and the Zeppelin lifting off with for the next flight. Watch it, rate it, comment on it. It's worth it. And can inspire even more people to want to fly in Airships.
Airship Over London Star Over London
[Update]
In addition to the Video above, Jim Logajan from the Yahoo Airshiplist pointed out another video of a flight with the London Zeppelin.
Airship Ride Over London
[/Update]
To read even more about the Zeppelin follow our coverage of the Star Over London. The Zeppelin will fly over the Netherlands later this Summer, subscribe to the blog to be up-to-date on the when and were. And after that Airship Ventures will take the Zeppelin home to San Francisco. As a subscriber you will also not miss a thing. We will keep you informed. You can Subscribe to our RSS Feed in a Feedreader or just get the latest and greatest Airship news delivered to you via Email with our Email Subcription Service. Leave us a comment or send us an Email if you have any questions or suggestions. You can also subscribe to our Mailinglist and Forum where you can exchange your thoughts with other readers. And please spread the word. Link to us from you blog or website, save our stories to Digg, Stumble Upon, Delicious, Facebook and all the others.
Airship Over London Star Over London
[Update]
In addition to the Video above, Jim Logajan from the Yahoo Airshiplist pointed out another video of a flight with the London Zeppelin.
Airship Ride Over London
[/Update]
To read even more about the Zeppelin follow our coverage of the Star Over London. The Zeppelin will fly over the Netherlands later this Summer, subscribe to the blog to be up-to-date on the when and were. And after that Airship Ventures will take the Zeppelin home to San Francisco. As a subscriber you will also not miss a thing. We will keep you informed. You can Subscribe to our RSS Feed in a Feedreader or just get the latest and greatest Airship news delivered to you via Email with our Email Subcription Service. Leave us a comment or send us an Email if you have any questions or suggestions. You can also subscribe to our Mailinglist and Forum where you can exchange your thoughts with other readers. And please spread the word. Link to us from you blog or website, save our stories to Digg, Stumble Upon, Delicious, Facebook and all the others.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
More London Zeppelin greatness at the Airship Ventures Blog
As long as the Zeppelin is flying over London the Web is just bursting with pictures and videos. This time the Airship Ventures Blog Up Ship! is servicing us with some London Zeppelin greatness. Click on the Links to get to the Blogposts and then make sure to click on the Pictures to see them in full size.
- Just to prove all these London sights were taken from an Airship
- Westminster
- The Millenium Eye
- Free Beer?
- St Paul's Cathedral
- Approaching Central London
- Canary Wharf!
- The O2 (Millenium) Dome
- Watching the Skies (Grenwich)
- Sunday 13th July 13:30 The Ship arrives in London!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Zeppelin NT arrives in London - Updated Now with Video
As Airship Ventures reports today the Zeppelin NT #4 has made it to London and is now based at the Damyns Hall airfield.
To read more about the Zeppelin NT in London read our previous posts:
[Update] a video of the Zeppelin landing in Damyns Hall just appeared on YouTube watch it here: "Damyns Hall and The Star Over London"
To read more about the Zeppelin NT in London read our previous posts:
- The Zeppelin NT #4 on its way to London
- Star Over London Website online.
- London Baby ! - Zeppelin NT starts flights July 10th 2008
- We have confirmation. Zeppelins over London this year
[Update] a video of the Zeppelin landing in Damyns Hall just appeared on YouTube watch it here: "Damyns Hall and The Star Over London"
Monday, July 7, 2008
The Zeppelin NT #4 on its way to London
As you might know the new Zeppelin NT #4 is supposed to start flights over London this Thrusday July 10th 2008. Unfortunately the weather god doesn't seem to like the Zeppelin. If you check the Star Over London all status lights are currently red. On Friday morning the Zeppelin left Friedrichshafen on it's way to London. The original plan was to be in London beginning of this week. Currently the Zeppelin is more or less stranded in Bonn (Germany) because of bad weather. The team from Airship Ventures is traveling with the Zeppelin on it's way to London and while they have to wait for better weather they are blogging keeping us all updated. Here is what they wrote today in a post called Ground Hog Day:
Ground Crew, Pilots and Mechanics were all at breakfast this morning for our now 'regular' 9am meeting. This is like 'Ground Hog Day' said Fritz. Ah, I said, I guess that means we're stuck in Bonn for another day.Have a look at their latest updates on their blog Up Ship!. They have published a whole lot of stuff in the last few days some even dating back a bit. To make it easier for you to find it. Here are the links to their latest posts, featuring bits from the transit flight, pictures and other gems. (newest first)
The weather is pretty awful for the next few days, not here in Bonn where the sun is shining, but in the English Channel. A low pressure is sitting over the UK at present causing very high winds from the SW whistling through the channel.
The Bad News is that it looks to be that way for at least the next couple of days, and then another front sweeps in.
Someone was asking Fritz yesterday ' but can't this airship travel in 30-40 knot winds?' Yes, it can. But if you fly at 45 knots into a 35 knot headwind, then you'll be going very slowly and burning a great deal of fuel!
- Ground Hog Day
- Cold Beer Shower
- Friendly faces at Bonn.
- Nuclear I assume
- Fast Ship
- Crop Canvas (2)
- Put a plant in front of it.
- Schlossed Out
- (Air)Ship to Shore
- Roll up, Roll up.
- Looks Like Lego
- Carpet Bedding
- Bye Sis.
- Additional Equipment
- A true flight of fancy...
- Hangar at Night
- New Branding
- Zeppelin Canvas!
- Modern Art?
- Rules of the Air
- Shadow on the Clouds
- Err, Where are we exactly?
- Three Heads are better than One
- Camp QSL
- A Real Blimp Chaser
- Footie Ship
- Well Traveled Truck
- Oh Poo....
- View from the Top
- Welcoming Crowd
- Looking forward to the sun
Saturday, June 28, 2008
William Thomas about Airship on Coast to Coast AM
William Thomas a Canadian investigative journalist was on Coast to Coast AM the beginning of this month and spoke about airships. Coast to Coast AM is a syndicated radio talk show in the United States. Read the Wikipedia article for more background information on Coast to Coast AM. The radio show can be listened to again via these two youtube playlists: Informations given in the show are nothing really new, a few false claims for example that the Zeppelin NT can carry 21 People instead of 12 but that might have been just a number mixup. The most interesting part is when Robert Rist from Dynalifter gets a chance to talk about the project, stating the the project is alive and that they are working on the prototype. So it seems the project is not dead yet eventhough their first prototype got so serverely damaged.
William Thomas also wrote a number of articles that are available from his website, I have just skimmed them but they might be worth a read as he covers a broad spectrum of general Airship Information, overviews about the companies currently in business and looks at the future possibilities of airships for passenger travel and their impact on climate change. He covers the Zeppelin NT from Zeppelin Luftschiff Technik (ZLT), Airship Ventures, the Voyager Airship of 21st Century Airships, the Dynalifter of Ohio Airships and Worldwide Aeros with their Aeroscraft. Here are his articles:
William Thomas also wrote a number of articles that are available from his website, I have just skimmed them but they might be worth a read as he covers a broad spectrum of general Airship Information, overviews about the companies currently in business and looks at the future possibilities of airships for passenger travel and their impact on climate change. He covers the Zeppelin NT from Zeppelin Luftschiff Technik (ZLT), Airship Ventures, the Voyager Airship of 21st Century Airships, the Dynalifter of Ohio Airships and Worldwide Aeros with their Aeroscraft. Here are his articles:
- THE AIRSHIPS RETURN - A Modest Proposal
- UP SHIP! - AIRSHIP INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- AIRLINES GIVING WAY TO AIRSHIPS?
- JETS, AIRSHIPS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Zeppelin NT - ground handling almost perfect
Originally I just wanted to publish this video of the brand new Zeppelin NT Number 4 with the Airship Ventures design on it but then I found a video of the Zeppelin NT #3 landing and thought I would just share with you some general ground handling and landing videos of the Zeppelin NT. It amazes me again and again how few people the airship requires for ground handling. The vectored propellers on the sides and the tail make the Zeppelin NT really the most maneuverable manned airship in the world. But enough said on to the videos. The first video shows the brand new Zeppelin NT #4 being taken out of the hangar, on the front the mast truck on the back just one member of the ground crew steering the tail of the airship.
The next video is an approach by the Zeppelin, it's turning into the wind and then lands, the ground crew of just three men then put the stairs onto the airship to allow passengers to exit. A completely different experience than that on the Goodyear Blimps with their big ground crew.
The last video shows a landing and takeoff by the Zeppelin NT #3 the highlight in this video is again the hovering ability of the Zeppelin and the calm slow aproach for landing and the easy take off.
The next video is an approach by the Zeppelin, it's turning into the wind and then lands, the ground crew of just three men then put the stairs onto the airship to allow passengers to exit. A completely different experience than that on the Goodyear Blimps with their big ground crew.
The last video shows a landing and takeoff by the Zeppelin NT #3 the highlight in this video is again the hovering ability of the Zeppelin and the calm slow aproach for landing and the easy take off.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Zeppelin issues Press Release on First Flight
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