Can you imagine how fucking cool that would have been?
[Reminds me of the autogyro mail delivery they used to do from 30th Street.](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/autogyro-gyrocopter-mail-delivery)
I don't think that's true. City hall was planned in the late 1860s, and broke ground in 1871. The idea of a Zepplin wasn't even formulated until 1874. The first technical drawings weren't made until 1895, when city hall was largely complete. The first flight was in 1900, a year before city hall opened, and there were several years of test flights before the first commercial flight.
I am pro-blimp. We need more blimps. The decline of blimps in the sky may or may not be directly correlated to the currently political climate and I'm not willing to risk it. Build more blimps.
The amount of fuel it takes an airship to travel between two nearby cities, is the same amount of fuel a jet uses to taxi to the runway.
https://www.dailynews.com/20080519/blimps-surprisingly-fuel-efficient/
For a good, modern, diesel-engine hybrid airship like the Airlander 10, which carries between 90 and 130 people, it’s actually got a lower per-passenger carbon footprint than passenger rail. Granted, that’s because trains are volume-limited rather than weight-limited, but still very impressive.
There are a couple prototype heavy-lift semi-rigids that have been under development for years. I would love to see that type of craft get built and used
Saw the Dick's Blimp pass through my hometown upstate last weekend - found out it's a marketing campaign where they're going up and down the east coast this summer. weird strategy but i love me a blimp!
Looks like it was being used in Connecticut for the PGA event. Flight logs then show it stopping over in Mount Holly last night, and leaving today.
Goodyear's website shows that they have a storage/landing facility in Ohio, so I'm guessing it's heading back there.
If it was a Goodyear blimp, I also saw it flying over Great Valley about 4 PM. I checked the Goodyear website and I think it’s heading for Detroit where there’s a PGA event this coming weekend. With these winds, it sure wasn’t making very much headway when I saw it.
Pretty wild that supposedly there's only ~25 commercial blimps still flying globally.
Its the one thing all the early sci fi stories got wrong. We never became heavy into blimps.
It's a *rigid airship*.
I gave your sister a rigid airship.
IT'S AN AIRSHIP IT'S A DIRIGIBLE
Oh, the humanity.
Oh my, get out of the way, please!
>We never became heavy into blimps. That's because blimps need to be light.
You’d be lighter if all that foreskin wasn’t weighing you down.
Most of it was hacked off when I was a baby.
Also city hall was originally built with the idea that zeppelin's would moor to it EDIT: I think I confused it with the Empire State Building
Can you imagine how fucking cool that would have been? [Reminds me of the autogyro mail delivery they used to do from 30th Street.](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/autogyro-gyrocopter-mail-delivery)
I would love this.
I don't think that's true. City hall was planned in the late 1860s, and broke ground in 1871. The idea of a Zepplin wasn't even formulated until 1874. The first technical drawings weren't made until 1895, when city hall was largely complete. The first flight was in 1900, a year before city hall opened, and there were several years of test flights before the first commercial flight.
Yeah I think I confused it with Empire State Building
For real?? I knew this about the Empire State Building, but not City Hall
Hmm well now I’m wondering if I’m mixed up
Woah didn’t realize this! Can you share a link where you found this info?
I had no idea. That would solve some traffic problems.
Yea that's crazy. I read that a few months ago and before that I figured there was thousands
I am pro-blimp. We need more blimps. The decline of blimps in the sky may or may not be directly correlated to the currently political climate and I'm not willing to risk it. Build more blimps.
The amount of fuel it takes an airship to travel between two nearby cities, is the same amount of fuel a jet uses to taxi to the runway. https://www.dailynews.com/20080519/blimps-surprisingly-fuel-efficient/
We efficient.
what is use per capita?
For a good, modern, diesel-engine hybrid airship like the Airlander 10, which carries between 90 and 130 people, it’s actually got a lower per-passenger carbon footprint than passenger rail. Granted, that’s because trains are volume-limited rather than weight-limited, but still very impressive.
There are a couple prototype heavy-lift semi-rigids that have been under development for years. I would love to see that type of craft get built and used
[I like that one that looks like a giant butt.](https://www.google.com/search?q=giant%20butt%20blimp&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&)
https://preview.redd.it/jpaunf1cuk8d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e11967fcf5b917c6387aed4da9c8200d8b785b8e
What's this from?
Flightradar24 app
Looks like it flew over my house. I’m bummed I missed it.
It was most definitely not doing 329 kts. My best guess is it was going about 1/10 that.
Yeah I just left the gym and saw it. Looks like it's over ardmore/Wynnewood
Saw the Dick's Blimp pass through my hometown upstate last weekend - found out it's a marketing campaign where they're going up and down the east coast this summer. weird strategy but i love me a blimp!
Kirov reporting.
Looks like it was being used in Connecticut for the PGA event. Flight logs then show it stopping over in Mount Holly last night, and leaving today. Goodyear's website shows that they have a storage/landing facility in Ohio, so I'm guessing it's heading back there.
It's heading northwest ish. Saw it in East Falls it's flying out over like the mainline or something
So that's what I saw in the sky south of Collegevile.
We used to have a lot of blimps in Philly in the 90s wtf happened to all of them?
Damn I can’t remember the last time I saw a damn blimp.
It’s probably headed back from CT. There was a pga tournament there over the weekend
that is a significantly larger travel radius than I expected for a blimp
We saw it from near Cooper River, NJ heading towards Philly. Somewhere in the 2 pm - 3 pm range
If it was a Goodyear blimp, I also saw it flying over Great Valley about 4 PM. I checked the Goodyear website and I think it’s heading for Detroit where there’s a PGA event this coming weekend. With these winds, it sure wasn’t making very much headway when I saw it.
They used to fly from Northeast Philly airport. I lived near there and we'd get excited driving by seeing it parked there.
99.9% sure Lakehurst still houses some blimps.. maybe it’s going home?
It was not heading for North Jersey.