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Megan Smith of Google shoots Larry Tesler disembarking. All three of us used to work at Apple, where we hovered earlier.

The crew on the left add ballast (Bags of lead buckshot and then water) to the cabin as each person disembarks to keep the ship from lifting. So now it really is a Lead Zeppelin.

Airship Ventures
liftoff video from last night.

6 responses to “the real Led Zeppelin”

  1. verrrrryy cool. think it will do an inverted dive with a mig 28?

  2. So totally amazing!

  3. Great series – that must have been fun!!

  4. That looks like so much fun. Wish they had them around Boston.

  5. Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Airship, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

  6. Me wants to fly it.

    ps: imagine something 3x as long and many-many times the volume filled with hydrogen going poof and you get the awesomeness of Hindenberg’s last moments.

    http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA/greatzeps/german/Hindenburg...

    LZ-129 Hindenburg Statistics
    Length – 804 feet / 245.06 meters
    Diameter – 135 feet / 41.15 meters
    Gas Volume – 7,063,000 cu. feet / 211,890 cu. meters
    Engines – Four 1200 hp Mercedes Benz engines
    Maximum Speed – 84.4 mph / 135 km/h
    Lifting Gas Type – Hydrogen

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