Introducing the Airshipworld Events Calendar

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It's been awfully quiet here at the Airshipworld Blog and you might have asked yourself if Airshipworld is dead, but rest assured we have just been working on something in our labs for the last couple of weeks. And today I am proud to announce the availability of the Airshipworld Events Calendar. It's a new piece in the big Airshipworld puzzle that we believe will bring great value to the community.
Right now, you can use the Events Calendar to simply find upcoming events in the airship community or you can actively contribute by adding your own events or editing existing events to provide more information. The service is completely free and will remain free forever.
For the near future we plan to provide an API which allows you to extract the calendar data so that you can use it on you website, personal calendar or in your publication.
The goal is to simplify our lives by having a collaborative events database that everyone can use and everyone can contribute to.
In order to make the Events Calendar into a great place to share and find information about events I need your help. Create a user and add your own airship related events. Send me your ideas, thoughts and feedback in an email or post it in the comments for everyone to read. And if you want to, you can also sign up for the Airshipworld bug tracker a place where you can formaly report a bug in the Events Calendar or can make a feature-request.
So have fun checking out the Events Calendar and let me know what you think, and don't be shy adding new events, it's open to everyone.
Oh, I almost forgot. The Events Calendar already uses the new design for Airshipworld, so check it out and let me know what you think, the Blog will change to the new design in a few weeks too.

DGLR Workshop XI pre-announcement

The year has just started but already the first Airship Events are getting close. One of the early Events this year is the eleventh DGLR - Workshop "Luftfahrzeuge leichter als Luft" on March 27th and 28th 2009 in Friedrichshafen. If you want to give a talk, you can send your proposal for a session to the DGLR Fachausschuß S 2.3 - "Luftfahrzeuge leichter als Luft". The deadline is March 1st 2009 so you have to hurry a bit to get your talk in, you can contact either:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Apel
Hochschule Bremen
Neustadtswall 30
28199 Bremen
email: uapel (at) fbm.hs-bremen.de
Tel 0421 5905 2207
Fax 0421 5905 2279

or

Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Fecher
Zeppelin-Luftschifftechnik GmbH Co KG
Allmannsweilerstrasse 132
88046 Friedrichshafen
email: j.fecher (at) zeppelin-nt.de
Tel 07541-5900-428
Fax 07541-5900-516

The talks are categorized as follows:

• Research and Development
• Projects and Technologies
• Operations
• Infrastructure
• Regulations
• Markets
• Financing, Leasing, Insuring
• Education and Training
• History
• Missions and Payload

Below I have attached the full german pre announcement. I will try to be there and hope to see a few familiar faces. Oh and of course there is also a RC Airship Regatta planned.
Vorankündigung DGLR - Workshop XI

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Links:

• DGLR Fachausschuß S 2.3
• RC Airship Regatta Yahoo Group
• RC Airship Regatta - official results (Race Munich 2007)
• RC Airship Regatta Munich coverage (2007)

Airship-parade impressions of the Event

We are continuing our coverage of the Airship-parade in Bad Homburg that happened this last weekend, today we will post a few pictures we took around the whole event. The first gallery contains some shots of the activities that where happening before the main event.

Links:

• Homepage of the Airshiparade
• The Graf Zeppelin Brewery in Bad Homburg
• The Schirmherr(Patron) of the Event: Constantin von Brandenstein-Zeppelin
• Zeppi Rotnase - Childrens Book by airship pilot and singer Pia Marie Witt
• Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim (Frankfurt)

9 Airships in one location and you don't know how to get there ?

Do you like Airship ? Do you think Blimps are cool ?

Then come to the 5th Airship Parade in Bad Homburg, Germany and you will be able to see 9 airships, yes nine at once flying over your head. On August 11th you will be able to see 9 hot air airships competing in the first ever airship bowling. It's a first in the world and this is not the only thing happening. Check out our previous post about the Airship Parade to read what exactly the parade is and why it's happening in Bad Homburg.
If you don't know how to get there read on to find out. Bad Homburg is located just 15 minutes north of Frankfurt and easily reachable from Frankfurt Airport. If you travel from around mainland Europe, use the route planner it will help you to find your way.

We will continue to report ahead of the event and we will be having extensive coverage after it. With videos, pictures interview and lots and lots of information. If you have questions that you would like us to ask the pilots email us or write in the comments section. Also make sure you are subscribed to the Blog via this link, so that you don't miss important updates. And if you haven't yet then read our announcement of the Airship Parade.

Announcing the 5th Airship Parade Bad Homburg

Today we want to announce the 5th Airship Parade in Bad Homburg, Germany on August 11th 2007. It's a unique event in Germany and maybe in the World. 9 airship are gonna be on site and flying, more than ever before, which is a record in Germany. The 9 airships will compete in the first ever airship bowling, where the pilots will have to knock over a stack of boxes with a ball attached to the airship. The site is the same as the 1. German Luftschiffparade from 1910, back then Kaiser Wilhelm II., the German Emperor at that time, ordered his war-airships to the town to get an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of the different models. Just like on this 22. April 1910 the parade is going to be a big folk fest, together with lots of information booths, films and music. Starting at 12 o'clock on August 11th the brewery "Graf Zeppelin" opens it's beer-garden and exhibitors open their booths, this is a rough overview of the program:

Legendary Atlantic-Crossing
Dr. John Provan, historian and airship-expert is in charge of the exhibitions at the parade. This time he revives the legendary Atlantic-crossing of the LZ127 Graf Zeppelin - service to North and South America. No other airship did more flights, transported more passengers and mail and travelled longer distances. 144 times the "Graf Zeppelin" crossed the Atlantic ocean, twice the airship and crew where greeted with a parade in New York

Special-Edition Stamps of the German Post
The LZ 127 is also the topic at the booth of the philately-team of the Deutsche Post. They open a special office at which you can buy stamps with the logo of the parade and the special-stamps about "Graf Zeppelin" which came out earlier this year. Also there is a Book about the "Graf Zeppelin" on sale that was just released.

Movies of the Zeppelin-Museum
The Zeppelin-Museum shows some of their movies and the Collector Dieter Weih is selling speclia souvenirs.

Aerial-Pictures
The Basler insurance one of the main sponsors of the event has a tethered model airship with a ground controlled camera that allows to take pictures of the people on the ground, the pictures can then be seen on a Website (we are going to announce the correct address later).

Warm-up to the main event
Starting at 16 o'clock the warm-up begins. Guido Holz an airship-expert and moderator is going to introduce the 9 airship teams competing in the first German Airship-Bowling. The tournament is scheduled to start around 18:30 depending on the conditions. The 9 team in alphabetical order are Arnold Luftwerbung from Kassel, whose green white HIT Radio FFH airship will be piloted by Germany's only female airship-pilot Pia Marie Witt. Out of Cologne comes Airgraphic Cologne for Germanwings, steered by Matthäus Smodis. Airovision GmbH & Co. KG out of Aachen is starting the the silver-blue Linde-"Zeppelin" with Sebastian Harrer as it's pilot. Two airships come from Kißlegg, one of them is Helmut Seitz from Ballonsport Seitz who is piloting the Thomapyrin airship and the Andreas Merk with the Ratiopharm airship. Blue Sky Promotion from Barcelona, with their Pilot Daniel Stuber is driving for Hessen in his yellow-white airship. Wim van den Boogaard from the Cologne Airship Comany and the Gefa Flug GmbH from Aachen are also part of the teams. Last but not least there is The Airship Company from Stockach with their silver EnBW airship with Albrecht Fischer as it's pilot. We are going to introduce the teams in detail in the next few days so stay tuned.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us. We can also help you with travel arrangements, and are looking forward to seeing you in Bad Homburg on August 11th 2007. Check out the Luftschiffparade Bad Homburg Website for more detail information, unfortunately only in German, but we have provided an autotranslated version in the links below. The pitures used in the article are copyright by Gerd Kittel/Kur- und Kongreß-GmbH Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe. More information can be obtained by emailing us at airshipworld@gmail.com or directly via:
Kur- und Kongreß-GmbH
Kaiser-Wilhelms-Bad
61348 Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe

Phone +49 6172 178 152 and +49 6172 178 110
E-Mail: tourist-info@kuk.bad-homburg.de

Also read our articles about:

• The Radio FFH Airship
• The Linde Airship
• Cameron Balloons the manufacturer of the airships

Links:

• Luftschiffparade Bad Homburg Website (german)
• Luftschiffparade Bad Homburg (translated to english)

Zeppelin Art [via Airshipinitiatives]

John Christopher who I just mentioned yesterday has posted an announcement into the Colorado Airshiplist, since it doesn't hve an archive or at least I don'T know of any archive here is the full text. We hope to reach a broader Audience by posting it here too. So John Christoper writes:

It's great to see the Zeppelin NT out and about again.

This artwork on the Zepp is in fact a special project by the artist Stefan Szczesny. The following paragraph comes from his website where you will also see an impression of the finished design - which incidentally is a reclining woman. See http://www.szczesny-online.com/start.php?lang=eng&active=zeppelin

Szczesny designs zeppelin

From April through mid-May 2007, the zeppelin NT will be part of a major event in which artist Stefan Szczesny will transform Mainau Island into a total artwork. The motto for this grand project is: 'A dream of an earthly paradise'. During this period, the zeppelin will also display a design by Stefan Szcezsny, making it part of this marvellous artwork, rounding off the project from up in the air. On trips over Mainau Island during this period, passengers aboard the zeppelin can marvel from on high at the 'earthly dream' - the zeppelin trip will make them one with this wonderful event.

And if you want to come and fly in this Zeppelin and see the island for yourself then why not join one of our Zeppelin Tours to Friedrichshafen - see our website www.airshipinitiatives.com and click on Zeppelin Flights + Tours.

JC
John Christopher

Airship Initiatives - putting airships to work
www.airshipinitiatives.com

So check out the page of Stefan Szczesny and if you are interested contact John Christopher and book your flight.