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I took a flight today.... (lemmy.zip)
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...IN AN AIRSHIP!

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[–] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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    • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I feel like we need more of a story here!

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And aerial pictures.

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    • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Did it have a bathroom on board?

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    One of my goals in life is to fly in a dirigible. Hope you had fun!

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Damn, maybe I can stow away on one.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You're full of hot air!

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    • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Don't light a cigarette amiright?

    (Actually that looks like an unforgettable experience)

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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!

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Did anybody not have a ticket?

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, the humanity!!!

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I took a flight today....

    Well, you better put it back!

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    A DIRIGIBLE! Look there, father, a dirigible! Have ever seen such?

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm so jealous

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Is that a sickle on the side?

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Beautiful!

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Hello Tombo!

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I love it.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Cool

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