Not Stukas Over Disneyland, but instead Zeppelins Over California!
Slashdot points to a story in The Industry Standard on a very, very cool thing: “Look, up in the sky: Zeppelin company Airship Ventures raises $8M” —
This fall, if our San Francisco Bay Area readers spot a zeppelin overhead, don’t worry — you haven’t been caught in a time warp. It will just mean that a startup called Airship Ventures has succeeded in bringing the zeppelin (an icon of 1930s aviation) back to the United States. The company just raised $8 million in a first round of funding.
Specifically, Airship Ventures plans to offer zeppelin rides out of Moffett Field. If the company follows through on its plans, it will bring the first zeppelin to Moffett Field since 1947. In a few months, Airship will operate a single Zeppelin NT based in Moffett’s Hangar 2, which was built by the Navy to house zeppelins in 1942.
Now if only they were down here in SoCal…


