Airship Ventures

Glenn Adams sent us these webcam grabs from Germany of our new mast truck (white) nose to nose with the Scania mast truck (blue).

The ship kiting in the wind makes getting the shots a challenge

What clothes look good with an airship?

Eureka is the setting for a fashion shoot today.

Hello NASA!

Ricardo, the KGO contest winner being interviewed.

Working on photo opps for KGO

Rob from KGO who gets it all to work.

Oakland wakes up. Headed towards the Caldecott tunnel for a traffic report.

Headed to SF.

Fire in Berkeley... Crews arrived and it's now out!

Jennifer waits for the next segment.

Joanne after some coffee! Waiting for the Sun to come up.

Watching the Bay wake up.

Jennifer Jones gets a script update as we cruise up hwy 101.

Joanne (Director of Sales) and myself are already at our HQ this morning, just checking in the KGO folks for our live morning breakfast show...

Today we were delighted to meet with Marcelo da Luz, his team, and his solar powered car project . It was especially fun to have this UFO-li...

A day early, but we're hoisting a green pint to St. Patrick at our "return to service" BBQ. (Note the vintage Goodyear airship...

Today is our 'return to flight' day after the annual maintenance. Eureka took to the air an hour or so ago after all the engine run ...

Our annual maintenance cycle is almost complete. We're looking forward to our "return to service" "lederhosen luncheon...

What is the best way to get into the rear ballonet for inspection? The "belly button"! [Brian seems to be fixated on this aspect o...

For the past few weeks, the toilet and all of the seats and toilet have been removed. Soon enough everything will be replaced, all polished ...

As much as we love the Mercedes and the MAN mast trucks, one day the MAN will go back to Germany, and we will have this new mast truck (buil...

Yes, the Road and Track April Fools edition is up on the website featuring a test of our Zeppelin, "Eureka". Enjoy.

Photo of the mast system remote at night

Lloyd Lindsay Young (left), KGO weatherman, and Bret Burkhart , reporter, begin a broadcast.

KGO team setting up the feed...

Airship Ventures Zeppelin "Eureka" takes to the air today, in our first live radio broadcast on local radion station KGO AM 810 . ...

Searching iTunes today, I found this informative video on the Macon debris field provided by Stanford University. You can download it for fr...

Our route yesterday took us from Moffett Field, to Marina Airport, a 1 hour tour of the Monterey Bay, followed by a 2 hour Macon commemorati...

After telling the story of the two airmen who perished this day in 1935, Chris dropped some roses in remembrance.

Passing the Point Sur Lighthouse on our way to the crash site...

As part of the pre-flight briefing, Chris Grech of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) showed some sub-surface views of th...

Mike wearing his Abney Park airship pirate shirt. We frisked him upon discovery.

A nice graph from the satellite tracker showing our trip down to Monterey and back last weekend.

We invited a local group of pilots over today to share wisdom and swap stories.

Road & Track invited us to show our stuff - 0 to 60, 60 to 0, 360 in place and 'landing on a dime' among other fun tasks. The t...

Thom and Brian M. Staffing the Airship Ventures pod at Macworld Expo.

We liked it so much, we're headed back to Monterey January 16, 17 and 18! Tickets are available for the transit flight down to Monterey ...

We're getting some new clothes, well, an additional branding. Our phone number is not so easy to read on the underneath if the airship i...