Marissa Brassfield
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Tours through California’s wine country are about to get a lot cooler. Airship Ventures received their first Zeppelin over the weekend, and will begin offering Zeppelin aerial tours of the Bay Area on Friday. While there are Zeppelins in Germany and Japan, there hasn’t been a Zeppelin flown over U.S. soil since the 1930s. Airship Ventures’ Zeppelin will be the third in the world. Its cabin is spacious enough for two crew members and twelve passengers. Airship Ventures is offering one-hour tours of wine country and the Bay Area. Zeppelins went out of vogue after the hydrogen-fueled Hindenberg blew up in 1937. Conversely, Airship Ventures’ Zeppelin is fueled by helium, which is nonflammable.  Airship Ventures has ordered two more zeppelins, which take about 18 months to build, and plan to offer tours on the East Coast, most likely from New York and Florida, starting in 2010.
Despite the slumping economy, the company hopes to sell about 15,000 tickets a year in the Bay Area, aiming to attract passengers for special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries and even marriage proposals.
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