This fall, if our San Francisco Bay Area readers spot a zeppelin overhead, don’t worry — you haven’t been caught in a time warp. It will just mean that a startup called Airship Ventures has succeeded in bringing the zeppelin (an icon of 1930s aviation) back to the United States. The... (Read more)
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Led Zeppelin dude!
Who made that great graphic?
Where are the conceptual design diagrams and renderings?
There are two already flying in the world in Germany and Japan. Why do you need concept drawings? There are plenty of photos of the Zeppelin our there.
OK, Airlines are canceling flights, reducing schedules, Dropping Cities, Laying off Employees and Rising Ticket Fairs all because of High Fuel prices and the enormmance amounts needed to FLY! There is an Answer.
Eddie Rickenbacker, W.W.I. Flying Ace and President of TWA knew it.
Testified in front of Congress in Support of the idea.
Charles Lindsburg knew it and spoke glowingly about it.
Dr. Hugo Ekner knew it and spent the last half of his life promoting it.
Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin knew it and spent most of his life dreaming of it, developing it promoting it.
What is the Answer to Affordable, Safe Air Travel?
The Zeppelin or Dirigible Airship.
The Zeppelin Company never forgot its Airships and has continued to design and develop them till a day came when the World realized it was the correct answer to Air flight.
Eddie Rickenbacker as president of TWA, testified in front of congress in 1947 to the superiority of Zeppelins for Air Transportation, Both passenger and Fright. Un-beatable for Safety and efficacy for transporting a ton of cargo per mile.
With the New High cost of Fuel make Winged Flight un-affordable, should we not re-examine this?
The Dirigible Airship, the Air Transport of the Future.
Curtis.
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