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ITS A RIGID AIRSHIP
ITS A SEMI-RIGID AIRSHIP
Stop, I can only get so rigid
Are we still doing phrasing??
I feel like we need more of a story here!
And aerial pictures.
You want pics?
I have pics!
Fucking AMAZING! Thank you!
Nice shots!
Not OP, but anybody can book a seat on a Zeppelin sightseeing flight in Germany. Most of them are in the 'Lake Constance'/Bodensee area around Friedrichshafen, where this photo was also taken. Where I live you can see them all the time in the air.
Did it have a bathroom on board?
It does!
It's just a hatch that empties out the bottom.
Coming in for my bombing run!
One of my goals in life is to fly in a dirigible. Hope you had fun!
I did indeed have fun.
Me and my dad took a trip down to Friedrichshafen, and took a flight on a Zeppelin NT airship.
Ot was damned expensive, but seeing as computer hardware just keeps getting more expensive, the airship ride of 90min cost only slightly less than two 8TB hard drives.
Damn, maybe I can stow away on one.
Sadly I don't believe that is possible.
Everything about the airship makes it clear that it is a different concept than an airline.
Take boarding for example:
This is not done as an airplane.
We were on the first tour of the day, and the boarding process was a bit unusual, the passengers are grouped into pairs, they are then allowed to board two at a time.
This is done to allow the ground crew time to remove sacks of ballast from the ship as you are boarding.
Then on landing the process was slightly different yet again.
This time the ship exchanged passengers.
It worked like this, first two new pax came aboard, then two of us got off, and so on.
Thanks for sharing your experience, glad you had a* fun day 😁
Huh.. small world :P Missed me by a week
Don't light a cigarette amiright?
(Actually that looks like an unforgettable experience)
It is filled with helium, but the flight was still obviously non-smoking.
It was truly a brilliant experience, expensive as hell, but brilliant.
Don’t light a cigarette amiright?
Not since the incident!
You're full of hot air!
Helium actually...
At the Lake of Constance? I hope to do that too sometime but it's so expensive. Hope it was worth it and you had fun!
It was indeed there, and it was brilliant!
I took a flight today....
Well, you better put it back!
Did anybody not have a ticket?
Well, the pilot and flight attendant did not.
Oh, the humanity!!!
Correct, same company
A DIRIGIBLE! Look there, father, a dirigible! Have ever seen such?
Cool
Hello Tombo!
I'm so jealous
Is that a sickle on the side?
It looks like it's a stylised 50
Yes, that is the one we flew with
Obligatory....
Bruce Dern as an insane airship pilot.
Robert Shaw as a blood thirsty assassin.
Marte Keller as a hot blonde who spends a lot of time nikkid.
Just be careful of that flammable helium! I kinda hope these things make a comeback would be cool to take a trans Atlantic flight in one.