Producer's Notes: Zeppelins Resurrected (Bonus)
The Airship Ventures airship "Eureka" takes off from Moffet field.
Let's face it… being assigned to fly around the San Francisco skies in a brand new, sleek-looking zeppelin for "work purposes" just further confirmed my excellent career choice. (Plus, I just got lucky). It's so amazing to see our world from that vantage point: intertwining freeways that look like pulsating blood vessels; miniature toy cars on miniature toy bridges; the two-mile long Stanford Linear Accelerator fitting into just one frame on my camera.
It's easy to see how these new, nearly silent zeppelins could be used in a myriad of ways – from spying on whales to aerial photography to weather and climate monitoring. But there's also nothing wrong with just celebrating the romance of airships, and having a darned good time doing it. It's certainly an experience I'll never forget, and I'd recommend a flight in the Eureka to anyone!
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I am a High School English & Speech Teacher, and we're studying the Crash of the Zeppelin Air Ship, the "Hindenburg", as a part of our Early Mass Communications course. I wanted to share with the students that Zeppelin Air Ships are still used today, although not prominantly. Your website helped me teach my lesson successfully! Thanks!