{"id":1641,"date":"2008-10-25T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2008-10-25T21:45:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T04:45:28","slug":"zepplin-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/zepplin-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Zepplin Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><small>New Zepplin NT04<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/10\/airship.jpg\" alt=\"Airship Ventures new Zepplin, NT04 arrives in the Bay Area October 25, 2008\"  \/><br \/>Attribution: Airship Ventures<\/small><\/center><br \/>Seventy one years since the last call from a Zepplin (the last time was the Hindenberg and that didn&#8217;t turn out so well,) I saw the one in this picture off the coast this morning. At the time, I didn&#8217;t know anything about it. Now, I know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airshipventures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Airship Ventures<\/a> has ordered (and now received) a 246 foot long helium filled Zepplin that will be based at Moffett Field permanently.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe business model is to primarily provide sightseeing tours around the Bay Area supplemented by advertising. At $500\/hour, it&#8217;s pricey. But I have to admit, I&#8217;d LOVE to take a ride in the ship. Up to 12 passengers can handled at at time and 1 and 2 hour trips are available. <a href=\"https:\/\/airshipventures.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >They&#8217;ve got a blog up<\/a> and it looks as though operations will commence next week. Hope the economy doesn&#8217;t take them out before they even get a chance to get going.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is a really bold idea that takes significant vision and appetite for risk. I wish the entrepreneurs (Brian and Alexandra Hall) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airshipventures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Airship Ventures<\/a> success. I&#8217;ll be watching with interest.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zepplin NT04Attribution: Airship VenturesSeventy one years since the last call from a Zepplin (the last time was the Hindenberg and that didn&#8217;t turn out so well,) I saw the one in this picture off the coast this morning. At the time, I didn&#8217;t know anything about it. Now, I know that Airship Ventures has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,6,7],"tags":[119,352,353,351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}