As I was going to Burning Man...

[bluegargantua]

Right,

So, if I ever went to Burning Man, I'd always thought it'd be cool to have something like this:



Only now imagine that it's a wee bit bigger and there's a zeppelin docked at the top.

hee
Tom

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[harrison-ripps.livejournal.com]

Given that you haven't a pilot's license, I think you stand a better chance of fabricating the effect of a zeppelin that actually having one.

1) Build the cabin in pieces (or buy a double-wide and redecorate the interior to zeppelin-inspired taste)

2) sew a zeppelin-shaped bldder, mount it to the cabin on site and fill it with many helium baloons.

3) Tether it to your tower and pray to all that is holy that the tether holds.

Admittedly, if you were to go the serious route (as in, get a PPL, buy a zeppelin, and fly it to Burning Man with your boarding tower stowed beneath the cabin), I would pray to you as a deity.

[bluegargantua]

I have no idea how you would even get a license to fly a zeppelin. That's not a pilot's license, that's like a rider that goes on top of a license (like being able to fly double engines or jets). I'm pretty sure that in the US, the only thing close is a blimp pilot license and basically you have to work for Goodyear to get one.

As for "buying" a zep, well, that's pretty much right out. There's a company in Germany looking to build a heavy cargo lifter model, but it's way more zep than I need.

later
Tom

[sben.livejournal.com]

Alas:

"By the insolvency of the enterprise in May 2002 resounds their original regulation has lost. Instead therein in December 2004 the first and only Tropenparadies Europe was opened: the Tropical Iceland Resort." (Translation from the German, found at http://www.cargolifter.de/, provided by Google.)

(We can still dream, though.)