Now that is quite something. It's interesting to see the much lighter construction incumbent on a hot-air blimp: the fins being single panel cloth instead of inflated structures, for example.
I wouldn't want to be somewhere that it went overhead. The number of people crashing their cars would be scary.
Having said which, back during the last big football championship in London, there was frequently a pair of airships chasing each others' tails over the old Wembley stadium. Why they insisted on continual movement, I don't know, since they could just hang in place, but then the camera helicopters were buzzing around like demented midges next to them, and the choppers could also hover if they felt like it.
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Date: 2007-01-22 10:51 am (UTC)I wouldn't want to be somewhere that it went overhead. The number of people crashing their cars would be scary.
Having said which, back during the last big football championship in London, there was frequently a pair of airships chasing each others' tails over the old Wembley stadium. Why they insisted on continual movement, I don't know, since they could just hang in place, but then the camera helicopters were buzzing around like demented midges next to them, and the choppers could also hover if they felt like it.