Perhaps what the listee should have said was "hot air balloons made by the
Zeppelin company".  The Zeppelin company is alive and well and I believe are
in the process of R&D on bringing back the rigid dirigibles in some forms,
but only time will tell.

http://www.zeppelin.de/E/konzern/06zepplin.html

Jim Thompson
oldvolkshome@earthlink.net
jim@karmannghia.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Reminder (F) zeppelins

> >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