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Misc Forums => NON LSR Posting => Topic started by: RichFox on April 21, 2009, 08:15:49 PM
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Today when I was driving home from Studebaker West. heading north on 101 about 500 feet up over the south bound lanes and heading south was a blimp. Not some little advertising blimp. A real big full size blimp. Big sucker. Blew me away. I'm told it's from Moffet Field and stays in the big hanger there. Thats what it was built for. Been a real long time since we used to see Navy Blimps going out on submarine patrol. Weird.
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In WWII no US ship was ever torpedoed while being escorted by a blimp . A guy I know has a deal where for a fee you go to his place in Vermont and with his guidance sew and weave your own hot air blimp .
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That blimp is built by the Zeplin company. Yes, the same ones that built the most famous of blimps. It is a private deal by Airship Ventures http://www.airshipventures.com/ and they use the hanger at Moffet Field as a base. They take tourist around the SF Bay area for a fee. I have seen it for the last few moths on the weekends and I think they just received their air certificate for passenger service. In their press release last year they were planing for a fleet of them. Just what we need in the SF Bay Area more Hot Air. :evil:
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Are you guys sure it's not doing PIRATE watch in the bay?
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At a cost of $495 for one hour, or only $950 for two hours. I guess I will never know what it is like to fly in a Zeppelin.
Tom G.
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i saw it saturday flying over monterey bay while i was on the peninsula.
big sucker!
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I have a soft spot for this one.