airshipventures.com - 10/8/2008
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Corporate Events Routes and Tickets Our Story Airship Ventures is bringing a Zeppelin NT airship to the SF Bay Area for daily sight seeing flights, advertising operations, corporate and event occasions and scientific missions. We start operations from Moffett Field, North Oakland and ...
abneypark.com - 10/8/2008
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abneypark.com —
has partnered with Airship Ventures for a historic
flight! On October 31 st , Airship Ventures will...
return airship travel to the people --- with the first commercial airship flight in the U.S .in over 70 years, aboard the largest Zeppelin in the ...
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Historic Halloween Steampunk Airship Ride With Victorian Rockers Abney Park
Boing Boing —
Okay, all of you people who love to hate on steampunk, STFU. Because this is awesome, and I'd love to go myself. The band Abney Park, who you may have seen at Bay Area Maker Faire earlier this year with their wild musical instruments, is teaming up with Airship Ventures to make history:
On October 31st, Airship Ventures will return airship travel to the people --- with the first commercial airship flight in the U.S .in over 70 years, aboard the largest Zeppelin in the world! And you can come along on this flight into ...
Zeppelins Return to the US This Halloween, $785 Gets You On Board [Airships]
Gizmodo —
... be under the command of the world's only female Zeppelin pilot and it will take off somewhere in the Bay area. The band Abney Park will also be on board and rumor has it that might even take a few requests. Currently, there are 8 spots left on the historic flight, and tickets are selling for $785. It's a hefty sum, but remember that price pays for the whole seat—but I am sure that you will only need the edge. Ticket info is available in the following link. [Abney Park and Airship Ventures via Boing Boing]
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Let's Zeppelin: Todd Lappin tours a new airship
Boing Boing —
Boing Boing pal Todd Lappin took a preview ride in the Airship Ventures craft that will be debuting on Halloween in the Bay Area (see previous BB post about that). Here's a snip from Todd's account:
Operated by a startup called Airship Ventures, the Zeppelin NT will be based out of Moffett Field, Calfornia -- a fitting home, as Moffett was built by the US Navy during the 1920s to serve as a base for military dirigibles.
The new Zeppelins are filled with the inert helium instead of highly flammable hydrogen, ...
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