They Come, They Come . . .

[voluptuary_manque]

With Zeppelins about to take to the skies of North America, can leather flight helmets, goggles and ray guns be far behind?

 

[PennLady]

With Zeppelins about to take to the skies of North America, can leather flight helmets, goggles and ray guns be far behind?

I've got my copy of Sky Captain -- everything you need to know to deal with blimps, helmets, and giant robots.

 

[JackLuis]

Will this lead to a re-make of "Flesh Gordon?"

 

[oggbashan]

Not good news for me.

Both my parents lost their childhood homes to a Zeppelin in 1915.

Og

 

[Stella_Omega]

There are thousands of deaths due to automobiles each year Ogg, but we don't hate automobiles for them.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The part of the article that annoys me is the the general public still won't be able to book a flight on one. Oh well, at least I can get a leather flight helmet. Hey Stella, you still building ray guns?

 

[Weird Harold]

The part of the article that annoys me is the the general public still won't be able to book a flight on one. Oh well, at least I can get a leather flight helmet. Hey Stella, you still building ray guns?

Well, not a Goodyear Brand Zepelin, but I think I read a coupl e of years back that there were going to be some genuine Zepelin brand dirigibles in public tourism service in Europe. Don't know what came of the proposal, but if you realy, really, want to fly a dirigible, it might be just a international flight away.

 

[rgraham666]

I won't be impressed until I see this thing in the skies.

http://images.wikia.com/girlgenius/images/3/36/CastleWulfenbach.png

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Vell, uf courze. Cashtle Vulfenbach iz de ultimate, ho yez!

 

[oggbashan]

There are thousands of deaths due to automobiles each year Ogg, but we don't hate automobiles for them.

Automobiles don't generally drop the world's then largest aerial bomb on civilian populations.

Og

 

[Guest]

nervous

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[voluptuary_manque]

You're thinking hot air balloons, Surely. This is a dirigible. It's powered and goes where it's pointed.

 

[Guest]

Whoops

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[TE999]

The US Navy zeps in the 1930's were something to see. Curtiss Aircraft even designed and built a special prop fighter called the 'Sparrowhawk' for them...each zep carried four that it could launch and retrieve in the air. The USS 'Akron' went down in a storm in 1933 and the USS 'Macon' went down in a storm in 1935. The Navy cancelled its airship program after the crashes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron_(ZRS-4)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_F9C_Sparrowhawk

 

[estragon]

The part of the article that annoys me is the the general public still won't be able to book a flight on one. Oh well, at least I can get a leather flight helmet. Hey Stella, you still building ray guns?

I gotta get me a ray gun--I really need to get rayed.

 

[oggbashan]

Well, not a Goodyear Brand Zepelin, but I think I read a coupl e of years back that there were going to be some genuine Zepelin brand dirigibles in public tourism service in Europe. Don't know what came of the proposal, but if you realy, really, want to fly a dirigible, it might be just a international flight away.

Not that far. Try Here

 

[FelMarch]

One can but hope. Today, North America. Tomorrow, the WORLD!

Well, certainly one is willing to concede: next week, the world. But a nice, leisurely conquest it will be, and is that not indubitably the point?

(Added in Edit: ) Sorry folks, but I just had to add this observation: According to my stats, this is my 69th post! Woo!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Not that far. Try Here

Damn! Thanx a bunch, Ogg. I'll just get on mailing list and some day when they're in the SoCal area, HM and I will get all Steampunked up and go for a float. What fun!