A 21st-century zeppelin flies to San Francisco

The view from a Zeppelin NT, over what looks to be a German landscape. Airship Ventures says that the new airships have "an unmatched global safety record--carrying more than 80,000 passengers since August 2001, without a single incident."

Among the other uses for the new-era zeppelins: hunting for diamond deposits in Africa.

Photo by Airship Ventures

Caption by Jonathan Skillings