The Brunch Table

5/12/2002

Dirigibles Are Fly

Filed under: — Joe @ 2:13 pm

So, did a dirigible ever dock with a skyscraper? Well, apparently one got hitched to the Empire State Building for a few minutes in September 1931. (You can even get a souvenir poster of the event.) It didn’t work so well, partly because of the crosswinds at that height, and partly because the dirigibles of that era weren’t such a hot idea. Actually, airships do work pretty well, as long as you don’t paint them with rocket fuel.

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