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Title: Zeppelins
Post by: besilarius on September 24, 2013, 02:35:45 PM
http://gizmodo.com/31-photos-from-the-golden-age-of-airships-when-zepplin-1376407382
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: Centurion40 on September 24, 2013, 02:45:28 PM
Cool.

It must have been an awesome sight, back at the turn of the 20th century.
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: LongBlade on September 24, 2013, 02:53:15 PM
I think there's still room for zeppelins in today's world.
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 24, 2013, 03:44:37 PM
yes, but claims of their capabilities have been inflated for years
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: bob48 on September 24, 2013, 03:59:17 PM
Blown out of all proportion in fact.
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 24, 2013, 06:08:33 PM
too bad airship flight is just a shell of its former self
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 24, 2013, 06:08:46 PM
in an industry run by a bunch of total gasbags
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: Staggerwing on September 24, 2013, 06:25:00 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSs2qt.jpg&hash=aa3996950003ca2800e50e154e3c1856e6e79167)
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2013, 06:33:54 PM
it'll end in flames I tell ya.
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: Staggerwing on September 24, 2013, 06:41:35 PM
Yeah, it'll go over like a Lead... uh...

...you-know-what.
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 24, 2013, 06:47:56 PM
... BA-1100N?
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: Staggerwing on September 24, 2013, 06:56:28 PM
or

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fuserserve-ak.last.fm%2Fserve%2F_%2F12278673%2FLed%2BZeppelin%2Bzep.jpg&hash=804a5c84702ad90714b4293df4d88c8f50eb868d)
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: besilarius on September 24, 2013, 07:57:29 PM
You do know that Jimmy Page was earlier in a successful band with Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds?
He had no luck doing something different, so he started another band, The New Yardbirds.
The London Times reviewed their first release.  "The New Yardbirds are so bad, they shall sink under the waves, like a lead zeppelin."
He found inspiration in these words.
Title: Re: Zeppelins
Post by: Staggerwing on September 24, 2013, 08:58:28 PM
I had heard that Keith Moon told Jimmy Page that Jimmy's new band would either take off or crash like a lead zeppelin.