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...presidential choice. And in waiting not for a mere announcement or a leak to be confirmed (that would seem spinnish, and besides that comes later) but for The Man to Decide, we are supposed to think of this man as presidential, or at least someone who runs a tight ship, like the good old days...
...even when the lifting gas was replaced by helium, passengers never again trusted the big airships. The last Zeppelin made, the LZ 130, rolled out of the hangar in Friedrichshafen, near the Swiss-German border, in 1938, and it was eventually turned into scrap. At 246-ft. long, the ship that Danneker will pilot, the new Zeppelin NT--for new technology--will disappoint those expecting to see hotels embedded in the bellies of stadium-size behemoths. German regulations limit the number of people aboard a commuter aircraft to 19, and the Zeppelin NT will carry just 12 passengers...
...Zeppelin NT is more maneuverable than a blimp, and it doesn't vibrate as much as a helicopter--making it ideal for scientific and business projects such as monitoring pipelines and detecting mines. "This ship has the kind of precision and maneuverability that you'll never find in a blimp," says Schulthess. "We can land the Zeppelin with a ground crew of just two people, while the best blimps need 17 or 18 people...
...Kazakhstan," Von Gablenz says. "With the CargoLifter, the same freight would arrive in three days, and the costs would be about 20% lower"--assuming, of course, that the prototype gets off the ground in 2002. Von Gablenz needs $250 million to build a construction hangar and put a ship in the air. To date he has raised $160 million from shareholders--two-thirds of it from 16,000 private investors and the rest from institutional investors and potential users such as Siemens and Thyssen Krupp. Von Gablenz's company has successfully tested a one-eighth-scale version called Joey...
...Russian ship, the Kruzenshtern, was largest vessel of the entire procession. A behemoth at 376 feet, the Kruzenshtern is the second-longest tall ship in the world...