By: soundofsuburbia
[this is excellent] And thanks for the link, monju_bosatsu! I've started a savings account... :)
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it's the blimp, frank, it's the blimp! when i see you floatin' down the gutter, i'll give you a bottle of wine... [thanks, dr doberman]
View ArticleBy: zoogleplex
I love zeppelins. One of the reasons I love Crimson Skies so much is because it's full of zeppelins - although having to fly down the inside of one that's full of rotating saw blades is, um,...
View ArticleBy: cyrusdogstar
coelecanth, my bad, that was a slip of the tongue--I'm just conditioned to say 'blimp' when I see an airship, like many Americans ;) I do in fact recognize the differences between the two terms....
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cyrusdogstar, it's a minor quibble but what you saw in that scene was an airship, a dirigible, docking with the Empire State Building. As DrDoberman said in the post, airship!=blimp. On the other hand,...
View ArticleBy: Shane
Wow. Zeppelins are fascinating, (retro-)futuristic and a little frightening in their volatile nature; always reminiscent of Metropolis (Many of the gigantic sets were built inside vacant zeppelin...
View ArticleBy: nthdegx
Thanks for this. I've been wanting to write a brief history of airships for quite some time. I'm not sure why.
View ArticleBy: DrDoberman
Seeing these links makes me hope that such airships may actually be a reality for air travel sometime in the future The company has already built three airships - Joey, Charly, and CL 75 AirCrane....
View ArticleBy: cyrusdogstar
[this is good] In Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow the opening scene has a blimp docking with the Empire State Building, as the building's top was originally designed to do; that scene was...
View ArticleBy: monju_bosatsu
And if you're really wild about zeppelin's, pick one up this holiday season at Neiman Marcus. Only $10 million dollars!
View ArticleClimbing the Stairway to Heaven Again
For the first time in over 60 years, airships along the design principles of Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin are being built. You can now fly in a genuine Zeppelin. They aren't the same thing as blimps,...
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