Air Transportation: September 8, 2001

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The German company DZR is to start commercial flights of its SN-02 Zeppelin. These will be $300 one-hour flights over scenic lakes for tourists. The plan is to gain operational experience for these slow aircraft (which have internal frames and thus are dirigibles not blimps) before trying to build long-haul cargo lifters of the type the US Army wants to move its tanks around.--Stephen V Cole

 

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