Andrew wrote;

>A weird observation - News today showed that Athens will have a bunch of
>Zeppelin hot air ballons to protect their airspace during the olympics !
>Environmentally correct but how efficient would that be against terrorists
>??

There hasn't been a zeppelin in existence for decades. What exist
today are blimps/dirigibles, nonrigid balloons. A zeppelin is rigid
and is not a balloon.

I wish someone would start building turboprop/turbojet-powered zeps
to compete with cruise ships... a zeppelin cruise would be unreal.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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not correct: http://www.zeppelin-nt.de/index.htm
the latest one just sold to Nippon Airship corporation (6/12/2004)
--
Karl
'81 Westy "Jenny"
Wilmington, DE