Kind of off topic, but I sometimes wonder if it would be possible to rebuild The Hindenberg with modern materials and helium, and use it as a luxury touring vehicle. It’s probably commercially impossible, but it would be immensely cool.
22 posted on 06/16/2010 9:10:30 PM PDT by sig226
(Mourn this day, the death of a great republic. March 21, 2010)
It flies around the SF Bay Area every day out of Moffett Field - Airship Ventures. Goes over my house every other weekend or so. 185 feet long, about 60% of the Lockheed ship.
