| | Actually, there are several airships in America, but none of them hauls freight and passengers. About 30 years ago, working on my first college certficate in transportation management, I became convinced that in a free market society, airships would be important, perhaps even predominant. After all, the roads were built and are maintained with tax dollars.
About five year ago, visiting my brother in NYC, I watched a Fuji Film blimp go up and down Manhattan, back and forth, advertising Fuji Film.
A few years later, driving from Cleveland to Dayton, I saw a Budweiser blimp land in Springfield. I stopped in at the airport. They were coming from the Indianapolis 500 and put down because storms were passing through.
Of course, we all know the three Goodyear blimps.
The new Hindenburgh has been about 20 years in the making. While it took "just a few years" to "complete," this project has been a labor of love. It shares that with Dick & Burt Rutan's Spaceship One.
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