Newest Zeppelin NT picture

Accompanying the latest press release of Zeppelin was a really nice shot of the Zeppelin NT with it's current T-City branding. Enjoy.

To read the press release please click here.

Airship pictures roundup

Since I didn't have much time to write a long blog post I let pictures speak. So there are a few more pictures by Andreas Barowski check out his Baroliner Website for some great Zeppelin and Hotair-Airships.
Also there are some nice new pictures from the Flickr Airship Pool:

• MetLife Blimp
• Hanger Number 1-IMG_7232-MV Baylands-crop
• Two Blimps parking
• Parking the Goodyear blimp
• Is this the plug
• Horizon Blimp

Cameron Balloons Hot-airships - follow up to G-BWKE - [Update: Post 100]

Following up to our article from Tuesday morning about the Radio FFH hot-airship G-BWKE
We have to thank Brett from Airminded who pointed out some great information in response to the last post. The Airship has a UK registration and is registered to Wilfried Arnold in Kassel Germany. You can read the registration details here at the G-INFO databse Search of the UK Civil Aviation Authority Website. The Manufacturer of the Airship is Cameron Balloons UK which seem to work together with GEFA-Flug (also check out their more extensive German website). The AS-105 GD is a very versatile little hot-airship that can be stored in a trailer when not in use. The crew needed to operate it is just 3 people the pilot plus two ground staff. The Envelope is 2,970m³ (105,000ft³) and 41m(134.5ft) long and weighs about 200kg (440lbs) together with the Gondola which is made of "Stainless Steel Space Frame & Aluminium Panels" the whole airship doesn't weigh more than 500kg. According to the Cameron Balloons website such an airship "costs less than 5% of the price of a large helium airship to buy and incurs less than a tenth of one percent of the operating costs, yet will conservatively return 50% of the advertising value". These airships are also similar to Dan Nachbars personal blimp "Skyacht" which he built and constructed with some friends.

Here are some additional pictures of the airship and other Cameron Balloons airhsips. Check out each link for the pictures
Airliners.net:

• G-BWKE (cn 3685) Bad Homburg Zeppelinfestival 2003.
• G-BWKE (cn 3685) Opening lap of the first blimp race since 1910 in Germany on authentic site.... included in this picture is also the Linde hot-airship which we have reported on before

Jetphotos.net

• Celebrating the 4th Airship Day at Bad Homburg
• Collection of Photos from Gefa-Flug AS 105 GD
• Picture of the Radio FFH Zeppelin NT that we have talked about in the previous post

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Historic Airship Pictures

I just discovered a site with some very beautiful historic photographs of airships dating all the way back to 1908. The Site is called Shorpy.com it's a photo blog with pictures from around 100 years ago, featuring images of the daily life, technology as well as Zeppelins and Airships. Check out the Zeppelin and blimp gallery, for pictures of the ZR-1, the Shenandoah disaster, the Zeppelin 3 and much more.

New Zeppelin nose ? [updated]

I found this picture on flickr the other day, and was wondering if the comment there is right. The comment reads

Die Nase des Neuen / The first Glimpse of the new Zeppelin

[update]Since the original picture somehow got marked private here is the link to the picture that I still have.[/update]

I think it's rather the Skyship formerly known as "The Spirit of Dubai"
if you look at this picture, that was posted previously here, the nose kind of looks like the one on the picture.

If you compare the nose in the top most picture to the one of the Zeppelin NT I really think it's the Skyship that's shown on the picture.

So what do you think? New Zeppelin or just the good old Skyship with new paint? Please leave a comment or send us an Email.

All those pictures are Copyrighted please follow the links to the originals, and more Copyright informations.

Airship Art - Sneak Preview

Paul Adams provided me with this picture based on the "famous" photo of the ZR1 unmasting from the Patoka, it's a sneak peak of a newly commissioned airship painting that is one of a series depicting the history of rigid airships. He says, that the series should be released in the not to distant future, they are currently working out the media, format and some other details. Of course we will report on it, when we have news about them. Click on the post-title or the picture to see a fullsize version of the Image and leave your Comments, either here in the blog or via email.