From: Larry Colen
On 5/5/2010 12:08 PM, Cotty wrote:
> On 5/5/10, AlunFoto, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
>> As to slow modes of travel, what would have been totally cool (for me,
>> anyway) was to have a dirigible service with regular departures like
>> trains or planes. :-)
>
> That would be way cool. With bedrooms. And 1950's hostess outfits for
> the stewardesses :-)
There's a dirigible (I think it's a dirigible, not a blimp) that flies
out of Moffett field, though it's mostly for day tours.
I've gotten shots of it, but alas, not from it. Maybe, one day when
we're all rich (I.e. not spending all our money on glass) we could do a
pdml outing in it.
http://www.airshipventures.com/
Zeppelin NT - classified as semi-rigid, triangle truss down the center
instead of a full rigid frame. The gondola is suspended like a blimp.
But it is manufactured by Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (ZLT) in
Friedrichshafen, so it IS a Zeppelin.
http://www.zeppelinflug.de/seiten/E/default.htm
http://www.myairship.com/database/zeppelin_nt_draw.gif
Looks like it seats 11 - 12 and the charter rate might be something like
$5,000 per hour. ($475 per seat x 11 seats = $5,225)
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