Goodyear is planning to lie to us and keep calling their new
zeppelin a “blimp”
If you tell us that it's made of Led...
Relax. There are no stupid airship jokes here. I'll leave that to Cartoons.
What's important to know today is that the iconic Goodyear Blimp is being retired. Strictly speaking, all three of Goodyear's iconic Blimps are being retired, with the last slated to be decommissioned in 2018. The good news is that they're all being replaced by Zeppelin's!
That's right...the new Goodyear "Blimps" are being made with a semi-rigid skeleton, making them technically not blimps at all, but Zeppelin's. They're going to be bigger, be able to hold more people, have bathrooms (a little surprising that the old ones didn't, but that's beside the point entirely), and be able to fly faster.
How fast does the Goodyear Blimp/Zeppelin fly, you ask? Faster than you think. Here's a Fun Fact! The current generation of airships top out around 50MPH (80km/h), while the new Zeppelin NT will pin your ears back at a blistering 73MPH (117km/h). It's slower than my car on the highway, but come on...it's a blimp for crying out loud...sorry...zeppelin!
Except for the fact that Goodyear has already come out and said that they will not be referring to the new airships as the "Goodyear Zeppelins." Much like how public perception has officially changed the definition of "Literally" to include "Figuratively," Goodyear has decided that use of the name "Goodyear Blimp" trumps actually calling the ship by its correct name. As such, despite the fact that Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin gave his name to this exact type of airship, that name will be left off of the Goodyear Blimps. Oh, the humanity...
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