Zeppelin Flies Again in US
Birmingham Post
Oct 28, 2008
Zeppelins, the giant floating airships used to carry passengers and drop bombs until the 1930s, haven't been seen in American skies for more than 70 years.
Now a California company is bringing them back, with plans to offer aerial tours of the San Francisco Bay area in a newly-built zeppelin.
It's one of just three in the world - the others are in Germany and Japan.
Airship Ventures' zeppelin arrived in the Bay Area, passing over the Golden Gate Bridge en route to its new home at Moffett Field, a former naval air station in Mountain View, about 40 miles south of San Francisco.
Fifteen feet longer than a Boeing 747, the 246-foot-long Zeppelin NT was built in Hamburg, Germany and transported by container ship to Beaumont, Texas, before a cross-country flight to California.
Starting on Friday, Airship Ventures will begin offering rides that provide a bird's eye view of California.
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