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Look, up in the sky: Zeppelin company Airship Ventures raises $8M

Posted on May 09, 2008

This fall, if our San Francisco Bay Area readers spot a zeppelin overhead, don t worry you haven t been caught in a time warp. It will just mean that a startup called Airship Ventures has succeeded in bring the zeppelin (an icon of 1930s aviation) back to the United States. The company just raised $8 million in a first round of funding.Specifically, Airship Ventures plans to offer zeppelin rides out of Moffett Field. If the company follows through on its plans, it will bring the first zeppelin to Moffett Field since 1947. In a few months, Airship will operate a single Zeppelin NT based...

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