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Zeppelin Gets a Visit from a Little Brother

Source: Südkurier Online A ZDF crew films in Friedrichshafen for a documentary on the Rhine. With a ten-meter long blimp they made completely new aerial photography of the river. Highlight of the shoot was the visit of the Mini-Zeppelin with … Continue reading

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Bigfoot Research Gets Lift from Stealth Airship

Source: LiveScience.com Past expeditions to find conclusive evidence for the existence of Bigfoot have at least two things in common: They were unsuccessful, and they were ground-based.

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Pelican Demonstrator Aimed At Airlift

Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology By Bill Sweetman A revolutionary aircraft prototype is now in the final stages of assembly and integration in a World War II airship hangar in Tustin, Calif.

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Goodyear Receives Parts for New Airships – the Other Side of the Story

In September we posted an article about the arrival of the first pieces for Goodyear’s new Zeppelin airships. The following is an article published last August in the German paper Südkurier reporting on the shipment of these parts from the … Continue reading

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Paris-based Company to Buy a Zeppelin

A Zeppelin NT, with a price tag of about € 16.8 million (US$ 22.7 million), will be flying over Paris starting in 2013.

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