Zeppelin draws eyes to the skies, will give rides here
The Farmers Airship, the World's Largest Airship and one of only two Zeppelins in the world, will make a historic stop in the St. Louis area as part of the Farmers Airship Covering Communities Tour, the first-ever Zeppelin cross-country barnstorming tour of the United States - - offering press and passenger tours. Photo Courtsey of Airship Ventures
ST. LOUIS • An enormous airship is quietly flying this way from Indianapolis and is expected to hover over the Gateway City, and its consumers, starting Monday. It looks like a giant torpedo with the name "Farmers" slathered across the side.
It's not here to honor corn and soybean producers looking up from America's breadbasket. Farmers Insurance Group bought the advertising rights.
Everybody has seen a blimp, but "The Farmers Airship" is a zeppelin that is just novel enough to set itself apart from the already commercialized blimp-osphere. Lifted by helium gas, the internal structure is framed with carbon and aluminum - a key distinction from blimps - that can shrivel up like an empty balloon. Promoters say the airship is one of the largest passenger airships in the world, and one of only two flying commercially.
The airship will be based out of the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia until the end of the month. For the chance to spy a different view of downtown and the sunset, up to 10 passengers at a time can each pay the equivalent of $10 a minute for rides. There is one pilot and a flight attendant aboard.
"It's like sitting in an easy chair and being lifted into the sky. It's that gentle and graceful," said Brian Hall, chief executive of Airship Ventures, which owns the zeppelin.
At 246 feet long - reportedly 15 feet longer than a Boeing 747 and 50 feet longer than the largest blimp - it is also one of the largest flying canvasses in the world.
Advertisers pay "hundreds of thousands of dollars a month," Hall said. But he wouldn't give specifics about the contract with Farmers Insurance, which booked the vessel to fly primarily around its coverage area in the U.S.
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Hall's company bought the airship three years ago in Germany, home of inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), for the current equivalent of about $21 million. It has a sister ship with the same dimensions in Germany.
By SooToday Staff On this day, August 13th back in 1895, Ferdinand von Zeppelin received a patent for his "airship-train", a new fantastical method of air travel for the masses. 1918: Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps
A Zeppelin is only a Zeppelin if it's made by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH, the German company that's been designing and building lighter-than-air flying craft since the early 20th century. The company was founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin,
1895 - German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon. 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. 1920 - The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
Those wishing to buy a men's Zeppelin timepiece might be interested to learn that the designs were first inspired by aeronautics. In 1900, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin created the first-ever dirigible aero fixed airship named Zeppelin LZ 1.
@ 31st August 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon... I bet that launch party went with a bang
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31 Aug 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
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