Skuds' Sister's Brother » Airships http://skuds.org "Please send me evenings and weekends" Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:45:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Whooosh! http://skuds.org/2007/09/whooosh/ http://skuds.org/2007/09/whooosh/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:13:50 +0000 Skuds http://skuds.org/2007/09/whooosh/ I have never given much thought to zeppelins before, so one statistic in a programme on channel Five tonight stopped me in my tracks. It was one of those popular technology-type programmes. The sort which usually features massive buildings or bridges. The one tonight was about airships.

The amazing statistic was the speed of the Hindenberg and Graf Zeppelin – about 83mph! If I had been forced to guess I would have said something like 20 to 30mph. These things were 245 metres long. I still can’t get over the idea of something longer than two football pitches doing that sort of speed.

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