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Loved the article on flying the new Goodyear Zeppelin ("Big Business")! This past summer, we took a European vacation and one of the highlights was a Zeppelin ride out of Friedrichshafen, southern Germany, which took us around Lake Constance (Bodensee) in a one-hour flight. This was truly an awesome experience and I encourage anyone who's interested to just go ahead and do it. The Zeppelins flown there are the same model Goodyear now has in the States. Typically you need to book the trip about a week in advance; plan accordingly. This is also the site of Aero Friedrichshafen, which to me is sort of a German version of Oshkosh and an AOPA Fly-In combined, so you could easily do both in one trip. If you do go to Aero, one tip is to stay in the city of Konstanz and take the ferry to Friedrichshafen; you can buy a combined Aero/ ferry ticket at the automated kiosk, and this also includes bus service from the harbor to the airport/fairgrounds.