Posts Tagged ‘balloon’
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
How could Balloon Dad Richard Heene not have known that Balloon Boy Falcon Heene wasn’t in/on/around the UFO balloon if this is the video that shows the launch, where everyone present could see right through the thing?
Thusly:
Also, this craft is barely capable of lifting itself at the 5000 or so foot elevation in this part of Colorado. Wouldn’t the father know that?
You could build a helium balloon to lift a child, but you’d have to put in a lot of internal structure to get it to maintain such an alien shape. So, it would have to be bigger than this thing.
Oh well.
Tags: balloon, Balloon Boy, Balloon Dad, colorado, Falcon Heene, Family, fort collins, Heene, hoax, police, Richard Heene, ufo, Video, youtube
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
NASA is now using the largest Zeppelin in the world to conduct scientific journeys – read all ab0ut it.
Get up to speed about this monstrous thing here and see where it’s been lately by clicking here.
And this is what it’s like UP there.
As seen over the Golden Gate Bridge last week, on a nice, sunny day. Click to expand.
Tags: 23, 23 and me, ad, ad advertising, advertising, airship, airship ventures, Alexandra Hall, balloon, bay area, blimp, Carl Fredricksen, CEO, dirigible, Disney, eureka, film, fly, Golden Gate Bridge, la, learn, los angeles, me, monterey, mountain view, movie, Napa, nasa, nt, pilot, Pixar, ride, Russell, salinas, San Francisco, scientists, up, ventures, zeppelin
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
This is what the the Bay Area’s Eureka Zeppelin looks like above San Francisco’s Ferry Building these days. Read all about the new colorful ad for the straight-out-of-Emeryville film Up, after the jump.
And if you live in Los Angeles, like Frank Black, then you’ll see this very same airship above your skies over the weekend. Look for it under the pouring sun.
Click to expand.
Read all about it, after the jump:
(more…)
Tags: ad, ad advertising, advertising, airship, airship ventures, Alexandra Hall, balloon, bay area, blimp, Carl Fredricksen, CEO, dirigible, Disney, eureka, film, fly, la, learn, los angeles, monterey, mountain view, movie, Napa, nt, pilot, Pixar, ride, Russell, salinas, San Francisco, up, ventures, zeppelin
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Do you have a pilot’s license, a current FAA medical certificate, and little extra pocket change? If so, you can sign up to spend a morning learning about the largest zeppelin that exists in the world and then spend an afternoon flying this low, slow and comfortable aircraft with other pilots over the Bay Area.
AOPA thinks it a good idea, anyway.
As seen from Golden Gate Park: Fly With Me (650) 969-8100. Click to expand:
Read all about it:
A Day To Remember
It’s finally here; your chance to fly a Zeppelin! Led by our experienced pilot and engineer team, this day-long adventure will allow you to see behind the scenes at Airship Ventures and learn the basics of airship flight before trying it for yourself.
Each session is limited to six pilots, giving each pilot at least 30 minutes in the cockpit as well as nearly four hours of total flight time in the Zeppelin. This gives you plenty of time to ask questions and to see the sights of the Bay Area while talking with fellow pilots and our Zeppelin crew.
If you’d like more time in the cockpit, just add additional slots or ask about a custom package.
Or, to gift this experience to someone, talk to us about a special gift package.
Flight Day Itinerary
9:00 AM
Welcome & Continental Breakfast
9:30 – Noon—Ground School
Covering history and terminology; operations and flight manual review; systems, limitations and performance, and flight safety
Noon – 1:00 PM
Lunch and pre-flight checks at Hangar 2
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM—Airship Flights
- Observe de-masting and take off.
- Each student gets at least 30 minutes at the controls, including straight and level flight, turns, climbing and descending, landing.
- Observe landing and masting.
4:30 – 5:30 PM
Closing Reception / log book sign off
Tags: airship, airship ventures, aopa, balloon, bay area, dirigible, eureka, fly, learn, mountain view, Napa, nt, pilot, ride, San Francisco, ventures, zeppelin
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Read all about it – Zeppelin service has been firmly established in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As seen over the weekend:
Passing by Coit Tower:
A close up view, click to enlarge. Can you see pilot Fritz Guenther and his Peltor brand headphones? Sure you can.
And an adorable piggly tail in the back:
There we go, back to normal:
Tags: airship, airship ventures, balloon, bay area, dirigible, eureka, mountain view, Napa, nt, ride, San Francisco, ventures, zeppelin
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
This was the scene this morning at Moffet Field in Mountain View. This huge thing is our new Zeppelin NT from Airship Ventures.
Wouldn’t you like to be Aloft in a Zeppelin? Read the trip report here.
Via the Telstar Logistics Photostream
Click to expand.
Tags: airship, airship ventures, balloon, bay area, dirigible, mountain view, Napa, nt, ride, San Francisco, ventures, zeppelin
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
It’s now, it’s wow. It’s the brand new Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT (Neue Technologie) and it just arrived gestern.
Read all about it here, here and here, (but of course Terence Chea of the Associated Press should take note that the Hindenburg was fueled with diesel, not “by flammable hydrogen“). Our new dirigible is fueled with gasoline and lifted by harmless helium so everybody should be very safe, unless they try to take out James Bond with the Golden Gate Bridge or something.
The NT04, shown as it looked above Monterey the other day, has a plain Jane appearance right now. The bottom of it says, “TO FLY: 650 969 8100.” Click to expand:
via Esthr’s photostream
Look and see our our new Zep owning the snooty Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay. (Man, that bus got totally pwned!) See more shots like this on the official blog.
So, look to the skies. You just might end up seeing the largest zeppelin in the world.
Tags: airship, airship ventures, balloon, bay area, dirigible, mountain view, Napa, nt, ride, San Francisco, ventures, zeppelin
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Whatever you do, don’t strip it down and take off the paint. You look good in pink.
Get your Schwinn steel cruiser frame with steel springer fork and Shimano 7-speed rear derailleur with SRAM grip shift right here at Target. Some assembly reqd.
Tags: balloon, beach, bicycle, big adventure, bike, california, cruiser, cyclist, Embarcadero, fork, pink, roxie, San Francisco, schwinn, spokes, springer, target, whitewalls
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Pee-Wee Herman’s rather baroque red bicycle, stripped down to its essence, would look something like this Schwinn beach cruiser avec springer fork seen on Valencia. Click to expand:
Whitewalls, gratuitous spokes, kickstand and chrome, chrome, chrome.
That’s quite a look.
Tags: balloon, beach, bicycle, big adventure, bike, california, chrome, cruiser, cyclist, fork, herman, mission, pee-wee, pee-wee's, peewee, roxie, San Francisco, schwinn, spokes, springer, valencia, whitewalls
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Despite the admonishments, it was the Mexicans vs. the Texans last night in Alamo Square at the John Wayne Memorial Water Balloon Fight.
Sadly, some noncombatants got soaked. This woman with a microphone, Irina Slutsky of Geek Entertainment TV, is seen here about to receive another blow from a two-pound water balloon. She also took hits from a few Super Soakers. [UPDATE: Irina might have gotten more than she bargained for, but she was a good sport nvrthlss.]
There were no reports of injuries. The Duke would be proud.
Interviewer: Can you tell us what you remember about the battle?
Czernek: We’d been fighting for a while. On the seventh day we ran out of ammo. We had to scavenge all we could from the weapons that had been left behind. Pistols, shotgun rounds, a handful of grenades…
Interviewer: Do you remember where you were?
Czernek: When Master Chief armed his grenade, I was in the back of an overturned Warthog, firing an M41.
Interviewer: How did you manage to keep it together?
Czernek: We knew Master Chief was still in the fight. He gave us hope.
Tags: alamo, alamo square, balloon, BYOWB, california, Darcy Villere, fight, john wayne, Jonathon Kakacek, San Francisco, water, western addition
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