Not OP, but anybody can book a seat on a Zeppelin sightseeing flight in Germany. Most of them are in the 'Lake Constance'/Bodensee area around Friedrichshafen, where this photo was also taken.
Where I live you can see them all the time in the air.
Me and my dad took a trip down to Friedrichshafen, and took a flight on a Zeppelin NT airship.
Ot was damned expensive, but seeing as computer hardware just keeps getting more expensive, the airship ride of 90min cost only slightly less than two 8TB hard drives.
Everything about the airship makes it clear that it is a different concept than an airline.
Take boarding for example:
This is not done as an airplane.
We were on the first tour of the day, and the boarding process was a bit unusual, the passengers are grouped into pairs, they are then allowed to board two at a time.
This is done to allow the ground crew time to remove sacks of ballast from the ship as you are boarding.
Then on landing the process was slightly different yet again.
This time the ship exchanged passengers.
It worked like this, first two new pax came aboard, then two of us got off, and so on.
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SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 16d
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 16d
ITS A RIGID AIRSHIP
tychosmoose@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 16d
Are we still doing phrasing??
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org · 6 pts · 16d
ITS A SEMI-RIGID AIRSHIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-rigid_airship
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 16d
Stop, I can only get so rigid
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 24 pts · 16d
I feel like we need more of a story here!
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 16d
And aerial pictures.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 67 pts · 16d
You want pics?
I have pics!
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 16d
Fucking AMAZING! Thank you!
0ops@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 16d
Nice shots!
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org · 13 pts · 16d
https://zeppelinflug.de/en
Not OP, but anybody can book a seat on a Zeppelin sightseeing flight in Germany. Most of them are in the 'Lake Constance'/Bodensee area around Friedrichshafen, where this photo was also taken. Where I live you can see them all the time in the air.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 16d
Did it have a bathroom on board?
stoy@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 16d
It does!
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 16d
It's just a hatch that empties out the bottom.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
Coming in for my bombing run!
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 16d
One of my goals in life is to fly in a dirigible. Hope you had fun!
stoy@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 16d
I did indeed have fun.
Me and my dad took a trip down to Friedrichshafen, and took a flight on a Zeppelin NT airship.
Ot was damned expensive, but seeing as computer hardware just keeps getting more expensive, the airship ride of 90min cost only slightly less than two 8TB hard drives.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16d
Damn, maybe I can stow away on one.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 16d
Sadly I don't believe that is possible.
Everything about the airship makes it clear that it is a different concept than an airline.
Take boarding for example:
This is not done as an airplane.
We were on the first tour of the day, and the boarding process was a bit unusual, the passengers are grouped into pairs, they are then allowed to board two at a time.
This is done to allow the ground crew time to remove sacks of ballast from the ship as you are boarding.
Then on landing the process was slightly different yet again.
This time the ship exchanged passengers.
It worked like this, first two new pax came aboard, then two of us got off, and so on.
radiouser@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 15d
Thanks for sharing your experience, glad you had a* fun day 😁
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 6 pts · 16d
Don't light a cigarette amiright?
(Actually that looks like an unforgettable experience)
stoy@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 16d
It is filled with helium, but the flight was still obviously non-smoking.
It was truly a brilliant experience, expensive as hell, but brilliant.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 1 pts · 15d
Not since the incident!
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 16d
You're full of hot air!
stoy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 16d
Helium actually...
sasquash@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 16d
At the Lake of Constance? I hope to do that too sometime but it's so expensive. Hope it was worth it and you had fun!
stoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 16d
It was indeed there, and it was brilliant!
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16d
Did anybody not have a ticket?
stoy@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 15d
Well, the pilot and flight attendant did not.
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 16d
Well, you better put it back!
PostaL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d
Oh, the humanity!!!
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 15d
Correct, same company
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 16d
Is that a sickle on the side?
waldfee@feddit.org · 3 pts · 16d
It looks like it's a stylised 50
stoy@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 15d
Yes, that is the one we flew with
wdx@feddit.org · 2 pts · 15d
Huh.. small world :P Missed me by a week
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 15d
Nice!
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 16d
Beautiful!
Procleus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
A DIRIGIBLE! Look there, father, a dirigible! Have ever seen such?
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 16d
I'm so jealous
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 16d
Obligatory....
https://youtu.be/waoazjmeomQ
Bruce Dern as an insane airship pilot.
Robert Shaw as a blood thirsty assassin.
Marte Keller as a hot blonde who spends a lot of time nikkid.
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 16d
Just be careful of that flammable helium! I kinda hope these things make a comeback would be cool to take a trans Atlantic flight in one.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
I love it.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d
Hello Tombo!
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d
Cool