[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Zeppelin at Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Zeppelin taking to the skies over Bay Area

George Raine
San Francisco Chronicle
October 28, 2008

Flying in the world's largest airship is a very quiet, smooth-as-silk 
experience. The six-cylinder aircraft engines hum unobtrusively, 
allowing the ship's 12 passengers to chat easily among themselves and 
the crew in the narrow gondola. Grand vistas can be seen through large 
windows, some of which can be opened.

That was the view on Monday from Moffett Field, where a new company 
called Airship Ventures cranked up its marketing machine to introduce 
zeppelin rides in the United States after a 71-year hiatus brought on by 
the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, the onset of World War II and the 
eclipse of ocean liner-in-the-sky airships by airplanes.

Airship Ventures takes off on Friday with four flights from the Mountain 
View airfield. It's not for everyone: A one-hour flight from either 
Moffett or Oakland International Airport is $495 per person, and two 
hours is $950. The company will start using Charles M. Schulz Sonoma 
County Airport next month, where a one-hour Wine Country ticket is $525 
and two hours $975.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/28/MN8K13P1J4.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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