Zeppelin flight

[JohnD]

My wife and I just returned from the USA and while in Los Angeles we managed to get a flight on the Zeppelin NT Airship at Long Beach.
It was a 1 hour flight from Long Beach via the harbour with great views of the Queen Mary.


Taking off at Long Beach.


Prior to Boarding


Cockpit with Kathryn Board at the controls. The Only woman Zeppelin Pilot.


2 C17's at the Boeing plant. The rear one has all engines removed.


Excellent views can be had from the rear panoramic window.


Queen Mary with a Carnival liner moored near by.


Goodyear Blimp - This is cropped from the following photo.


General view towards Los Angeles - Goodyear Blimp centre right.


Shadow during decent into Long Beach


After getting off we all had to stand at the front for safety reasons while it took of with the next load of 14 passengers.


Flying off for another Harbour cruise.

It was a great experience and one that I never thought would happen.

Regards

John

[Badgerman]

Thanks for sharing, nice shots!

Mark

[DaveB]

Lovely shots John and tks for posting

I've moved it down to E&S as it's not sim related

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Thanks for sharing those John

Looks like you had a great trip

[nigelb]

Great pics, John. Looks like you had a nice clear day in LA LA land.

Nigel²

[DispatchDragon]

Did you get the British (Female) Zeppelin Driver?

leif

[JohnD]

Thanks for your comments. We had a good clear day for the flight. We should have flown the previous day but it was too windy. The pilot was indeed Kathryn Board the one and only woman zeppellin pilot and British too. There are only nine qualified Zeppelin pilots worldwide.

Thanks for looking and your comments. Thanks for moving the post Dave.

John

[Filonian]

If it was Leif, with forearms like that, I wouldn't argue with her.

Lovely shots John. Thanks for posting.


Graham

[FlyTexas]

Boy that looks like huge fun! Thanks for sharing your pics with us, John.

Brian

[airboatr]

John
always good to hear , and see, what folks around here are up to.
Glad to hear you had a great time and got to get a birds eye view of Kally-fornya ( As their Guvnor says it)
thanks for sharing

Joe