Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Abney Park To (possibly) Hijack A Zeppelin In Less Than A Month
I first heard that Abney Park (steampunk electronic rock band) was going to play on a zeppelin by way of their Official Page. I grew jealous. Then I discovered more details about it from Boing Boing and I was jealous of Boing Boing, for blogging about it first when I hadn’t gotten around to it [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
The Dirigibles of [Pre-]Communist Russia
Over at English Russia they’ve got a great bunch of photos of pre-communist russian airships. But the real treat is to look at the site where those images are coming from. It’s in russian, so you can’t read most of it, but info.dolgopa.org has great pictures of communist and pre-communist airships, like the one above, [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Airships!
I secretly (openly?) started this blog because I wanted to run an airship blog. Airships and trains, that’s how to travel. So we’ll start with this bit of news: DARPA (military mad scientists) was given $2 million to investigate airship manufacturer Aeros‘ latest attempt at technological advance, what they call BAAV. From the comments over [...]
