Zeppelin Sightings

Friday, October 24, 2008

Boeing

Just flew right over the Boeing facility in Huntington Beach headed towards Long Beach
Heiko Jones

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Beaumont, CA (not TX)

Beuatiful ship, Just flew by are home in Beaumont California. Hope to see it more often
Christian Clark

Very pretty

The Zeppelin just passed north of Palm Springs. Looked like it was fallowing I10 westbound. Very pretty. Sorry i couldn't get a picture. Beautiful airship!
Florian

I had heard from my father-n-law that he had seen the air ship fly over and said that it was heading NW from his house. So after work I went by the Marana Airport and found my wife with her dad looking thru the fence. So I took this picture and will print it and pass it on to him. I hope to see it in flight someday. The picture was taken about 45min before sunset. What a great day!

Leo Rhein

moored

moored @ Marana Regional Airport
John Cramer

Truly awesome

10/23/08 about 9:55 am.
I was southbound on Interstate 10 about five miles south of Casa Grande Az when I spotted the airship. She was northbound and moving at slow speed (it was quite windy). I've seen the smaller airships used locally for advertising and sporting events, but none comapare to the Ventures! What a truly aewsome and magnificent sight! Unfortunately, I did not have a camera with me.
Scott Myers

Rancho Mirage

Passing over Rancho Mirage, CA 10/23/08. Wish it would have stopped at KTRM!
Gary Granger

Thermal

My wife and I went down to Thermal to watch y'all dock but sadly windy weather nixed the landing. As we were leaving the airport she said, "Hey, there it is!" and sure enough there was the airship happily flying over the Coachella Valley. We followed as it flew over I-10 all the way back to our home in Palm Springs. What a wonderful day, thank you for the smiles!
Michelle Moran

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Never leave your photo spot!

A friend of mine pointed me to the website, so I drove out east of Tucson and met the ship as it passed I-10 and Houghton Road. I headed back into town and the ship passed directly over me at 22nd St. and Country Club Rd. Then I proceeded up I-10 and got some more photos just before the ship headed for Avra Valley Airport. Unfortunately I thought it would keep going towards Picacho so I missed the first landing. Then while I was waiting for the second landing which was delayed (?) I decided to get a snack and missed all but the last few seconds of the mooring. Rats! Lesson: never leave your photo spot!

It's good to see a Zep in American skies once again!

John Meyer

Wal Mart and Dairy Queen.

I'm a long-time fan of aviation in general and airships in particular. I was just fortunate enough around 9:00 this morning (10-21-08) as I was leaving our Deming, New Mexico Wal-Mart to look up and see your ship taking off from our local airport. It climbed quickly, headed right over me going due west, then turned a bit north as if it were lining up on I-10 heading to Tucson/Phoenix/L.A. It was a beautiful gold ship and seemed to be moving at a good clip. I told a group of seniors about it later at our local Dairy Queen, and most of us were wanting to buy a ride on your lovely ship! Hope you come back to Deming again soon! I'm sorry I didn't have my camera with me at the time. Good luck with your "venture"!
Marion Kleber

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Back hurting moment

Captured over the MAIN GATE GARAGE - Tucson Arizona
888 N. Euclid Ave
Tucson, AZ

1405 hrs Oct 22 2008

We have been watching for 2 days waiting for the arrival of the Airship and I even had friends (once we saw the course change) begin driving down I10 in Arizona to get pictures.

I have not seen those yet however the Ariship passed directly over the University of Arizona where I work and I was able to get some pictures from the top of the parking garage.

My back is going to hurt tomorrow since I was running to the garage and I have a torn disc, but it was more then worth it.

Thank you for coming over our city so we could see this, I explained to my children that this is very near a once in a lifetime chance as I am now nearing 40 and have never seen an Airship this close to me.

Enjoy and 73

Dirk Harris

[Ed: Dirk, take care of yourself! Thanks for the sighting]

Boneyard Contact

I work in Davis Monthan control tower. I not only saw but I talked to...the British female pilot. Nice people.

Tim

[Ed: Hey, they flew over the David Monthan AFB which happens to be home to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration group, a.k.a The Boneyard! I hope Brian got some pics]

Rita Road

Just saw the massive ship float by Rita Road in Tucson AZ.

Looks like fun!

Brian

Ft Stockton Sighting

I saw your airship yesterday morning, October 20, 2008 In Fort Stockton, Texas. It was around 10 AM or so and all of a sudden I see this huge white airship heading west alongside I-10.

It was pretty neat

Bill Torres

Monday, October 20, 2008

Passing El Paso

It was outside my building (Wells Fargo Tower) in downtown El Paso today at approx. 2pm (mst). I took pictures with my cell phone from my office on the 17th floor.
Ruby Jean

Dang. Missed a WW1 Fokker Triplane opportunity.

We were having our volunteer day at Kingsbury, Texas, working on WWI fighter planes. Had we had some warning we would have intercepted your Zep with a WWI Fokker Triplane! It was an awesome treat to see it fly over our grass airfield, it was like going back through time. A shame it could not fly over our air fair on Nov 8 as our vintage aircraft will be flying. A wonderful treat. Some pics were taken, will contact the photographers

Al Sumrall

[Ed: These must be the guys at the Pioneer Flight Museum]