Budweiser Blimp / Airship

[sadaist]

Graf Zeppelin in Los Angeles on its round the world flight in the 1929. Check out the Goodyear blimp next to it.

[Nitro Express]

Damn Chef....we're gonna have zeppelins floating around? more than 50 feet longer than our current largest blimps too. Fucking crazy! Can't wait to see one, except I think I will always picture the Hindenburg on fire every time I see one.

Still though...these new ones will still only be about 1/3 the size of the old MONSTERS

*my buddy used to bring two GIANT joints with him when we would camp at the CO River for Spring Breaks. The Graf Zeppelin & the Hindenburg. Yep.....they always went down in flames.


A size comparison of the Hindenburg with a 747
and the Titanic. The Titanic is only 78 feet longer
than the Hindenburg at 882 feet long.

Yeah. The old dude that saw the Hindenburg going over his house said it was HUGE! He said it had huge engines that just roared as it went overhead.

[Seshmeister]

Sick....yet just plain awesome!






Graf Zeppelin

Where's Indy?

[BITEYOASS]

I wonder how many football games and races the Bud blimp flew over.

[chefcraig]

I wonder how many football games and races the Bud blimp flew over.

It's a good question, but a better one would be why is there so little on the internet about the craft? Seriously, try a Google search on "Budweiser blimp" or "Bud One Airship". Other than models, lamps or banks, you can't seem to find a word about the damned thing.

[sadaist]

It's a good question, but a better one would be why is there so little on the internet about the craft? Seriously, try a Google search on "Budweiser blimp" or "Bud One Airship". Other than models, lamps or banks, you can't seem to find a word about the damned thing.

Yeah dude, it's weird. In fact when I did a Google search to try to find some stuff to post here....this thread came up on page 1 of the results.

Oh well. Maybe in the future some airship fans will find their way to the RothArmy and become CVH fans.

[SunisinuS]

Hesse, Germany, June 12, 2011
The Goodyear blimp flies in Hesse, Germany, during the Hessentag festival. One pilot and three passengers — journalists taking aerial shots of the celebrations — were on board the flight on June 12, 2011, when the craft burst into flames.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...#ixzz1PDA4M998

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2077468_2283518,00.html?hpt=hp_t2

[clarathecarrot]

Sick....yet just plain awesome!





Graf Zeppelin

I know for a fact < never been there) from pics I have see thru the years there aren't many -High Places- around the piramyds in or in a desert, or in Egypt...So to me the biggest thrill here is something rare, being on top of one of the piramyds for a photo oportunity.

The Khafre pyramid is in the image, they must be sitting,... I am not saying on top, but why NOT!..of the Khufu .

I am having wood.

[sadaist]

Hesse, Germany, June 12, 2011
The Goodyear blimp flies in Hesse, Germany, during the Hessentag festival. One pilot and three passengers — journalists taking aerial shots of the celebrations — were on board the flight on June 12, 2011, when the craft burst into flames.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...#ixzz1PDA4M998

http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...html?hpt=hp_t2

So fucking sad. When the pilot told the others to jump to safety when they were only 7 feet off the ground, I bet he didn't realize the weight loss would make him rise up....and he would jump out after the passengers did. If I were a passenger, I would feel like shit knowing that by me jumping out it caused the blimp to rise & not allow pilot to jump out. So sad. They could hear him screaming. That will haunt them.

Not a picture of a blimp I really like showing. But there is something a bit mesmerizing watching one of these beasts demise. I don't know if it's the sheer size or the slow motion way in which the destruction takes place. It is very surreal.

[Seshmeister]

It was called 'The Spirit of Safety' which is kind of asking for trouble.

You would think these things would be completely impossible to go on fire these days made of flame retardant material and full of helium.

Apparently both engines went on fire.

[chefcraig]

Not a picture of a blimp I really like showing. But there is something a bit mesmerizing watching one of these beasts demise. I don't know if it's the sheer size or the slow motion way in which the destruction takes place. It is very surreal.

Zeppelin Shoots - "They fell so much more gracefully than grouse." From Bruce McCall's bizarrely entertaining book of surreal alternate history, art and commentary Zany Afternoons, published in 1982.

[fifth element]

So fucking sad. When the pilot told the others to jump to safety when they were only 7 feet off the ground, I bet he didn't realize the weight loss would make him rise up....and he would jump out after the passengers did. If I were a passenger, I would feel like shit knowing that by me jumping out it caused the blimp to rise & not allow pilot to jump out. So sad. They could hear him screaming. That will haunt them.

Not a picture of a blimp I really like showing. But there is something a bit mesmerizing watching one of these beasts demise. I don't know if it's the sheer size or the slow motion way in which the destruction takes place. It is very surreal.

Very sad. And, being knowledgable in his craft, and about the aircraft he was flying,
the pilot probably knew what would happen...
yet proceeded to save the lives of his passengers

Not a day that I would like to have to remember.

I am curious about the cause of the fires.

[Seshmeister]