Airship Ventures

Things airship related and the back story on operating the Airship Ventures Zeppelin “Eureka” in the USA.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Photo reprise

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Some of you may have seen our rack card that we use to advertise our flights. On the back is a picture of Katharine Board, pilot and Flight ...

Dust Devils (Redding, CA)

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When we were landing in Redding, a large dust devil appeared to the port side of the airship causing us to do an emergency take off. We had ...

All in a row

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Orchards and Christmas Tree farms all make for great screen savers.

Media Flights

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Being a Zeppelin guest services member requires a number of skills, although it's rare that you have to act as the camerawoman for the n...

Table Rock and the Rogue River.

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The Zeppelin flight in the Medford area has some of the most beautiful natural scenery I've had the pleasure of viewing from Eureka .

Stamping the Zeppelin mail.

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While we haven't yet decided what we're going to do with them, we've been making sure that on unique or first flights we carry s...

Latest "crew" member

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If you have flown with us you'll recall that one of the features of our prior service was the fun of squeezing into the passenger vehicl...

Charged atmosphere

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It's getting very hot here in Medford and we're seeing something that is very uncommon in the Bay Area - thunderstorms! The sky last...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Hello Medford

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Down and masting.
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Overhead

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Ship in sight!

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En route to Medford

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The airship left at 5.40am this morning to get over the mountains. As this flight is close to the limits of the airship in the current heatw...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Sundial bridge, Redding

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Happy to be here!

Approaching Redding

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Landing shortly!

Corning, CA

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Appears to be the place where you can get any size of water or septic tank, among all the usual amenities.

And this is....?

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We're about 100 miles south of Mt Shasta which is just visible on our horizon. A town called Orland, an airfield called Haigh Field and ...

Wildlife Refuges

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Among the endless verdant fields around Colusa are many wildlife refuges, with ponds and wetlands colored by algae.

Esparto

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According to the GPS, we're passing Esparto. Lots of agriculture, and attractive farmhouses. Oliver has been telling us about his first ...

AFB Museum

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Some great machines below us.

In the delta

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Passing the mothball fleet, hoping for clearance over Travis AFB.
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