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telstarlogistics.typepad.com - 10/28/2008

Flight Report: Aloft in a Zeppelin Airship

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A Zeppelin at Moffett Field Cockpit Crew Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a pioneering German aeronaut who founded the Zeppelin Airship company before World War I. An engineer, entrepreneur, and innovator, Zeppelin believed that dirigibles -- gas-filled airships built around a rigid aluminum frame ...

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airshipventures.com - 10/29/2008

Airship Ventures

— airshipventures.com — 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 ... (more) Airship Ventures

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dvice.com - 10/30/2008

San Francisco is bringing the Zeppelin back

— dvice.com — The last time airships symbolized chic travel was about 10 seconds before the Hindenburg blew up in... 1937. But Airship Ventures' new airship cruises in the San Francisco Bay Area want to bring retro-cool to new heights — around 1,300 feet ... (more) San Francisco is bringing the Zeppelin back

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MAKE Magazine — ... 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, they're only about one-quarter the size of the old giants, and they're equipped with modern technology and avionics. Power is delivered by three Lycoming engines that put out around 200 horsepower each, and the airship frame is constructed from a combination of of aluminum and carbon fiber. Flight Report: Aloft in a Zeppelin Airship Up Ship! (Airship Ventures' blog, with a ...