Zeppelin update
I have been in San Antonio all week and will do a catch up post on John Henry and San Antonio and things in general in a bit. However...
I got into the Des Moines airport last night about nine o'clock last night, picked up my car, and spend a weird amount of time not being on the right road but ending up in the right place anyway. On I-35 North out of Des Moines, I came around a curve and right in front of me--I swear to god--was a zeppelin.
Sanyo says it's more of a blimp than a zeppelin:
...We're also properly termed a blimp, an airship and even a dirigible (they all mean about the same thing), but we're not a zeppelin, which refers to the old metal airships.How big is the blimp?
It's a BIG blimp! Our blimp is one of the largest in the world at 165 feet long, 55 feet high and 46 feet wide! Our roomy gondola holds 9 passengers plus the pilot. The giant envelope holds over 150,000 cubic feet of non-flammable helium. How big is that? You could fit nearly one million golf balls in the SANYO Lightship! The giant "SANYO" logo on the side of the envelope is 100 feet long and 32 feet high.
I say it was very big. And shiny....