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[–] TheRedditoristo@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I'll bet I'm the only person here who's ridden on a blimp? Back in the late 80s the Slice (a defunct soft drink) blimp let you pay a couple hundred bucks and took off from the Oakland airport, floated out over the SF bay and over the golden gate bridge, and returned to the airport, where it was caught rather than landed. Pretty fun.

And that's my blimp story. See if you can top it.

[–] shazam482@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

where it was caught rather than landed

Explain this bit please. Blimps don't come to a controlled stop like every other vehicle in existence?

[–] CreatiScope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I just watched a season of Big Brother where a reward was getting to ride in the Goodyear blimp. When it landed, there was a group of like 10-15 people that had these ropes or cables and they kind of just catch the blimp as it slowly lands. Obviously the pilot brings it to a crawl but the ground team was pulling/directing it where it was going to land.

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