Airship Ventures Names Zeppelin “Eureka”—2008

A period banner

The mob keeps a wary eye on the crowd

Slightly enhanced photo to reveal the alien on the zeppelin

The jazz musicians are unaware of the impending disaster

Bill, Jeff, and Mark and the zeppelin

Bill and zeppelin

The zeppelin Eureka

Jeff with the Dreyer’s man and woman

Jeff and Mark take it in

Jeff, Paul, Mark, and Hangar 1

Jeff and the Eureka

Jeff and the Eureka

Mark and the Eureka

Paul, Jeff, and Mark and the Eureka

Paul, Mark, and the Eureka

Detail of the zeppelin’s tail

Period cars deliver the dignitaries

Alexandra and Brian Bell, co-founders of Airship Ventures

The proud mother stops speaking to look at her baby

U.S. Marine Corps Colonel William Moffett III, grandson of the airfield’s namesake, U.S. Navy Adm. Moffett

President Hiroyuki Watanabe of Nippon Airship Corporation, Japan, owner of Zeppelin #2

Jack Boyd, senior adviser to the director

Josef Büchelmeier, mayor of Friedrichshafen, Germany, I think

The mayor of Sunnyvale—or was that Mountain View?—congratulates Alexandra with some awards while Pete looks away

Pete Worden

Thomas Brandt, CEO of Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik

Wolgang von Zeppelin, great-great-grandnephew of the airship pioneer Count Von Zeppelin

von Zeppelin presents Brian with a hat

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren

The winner of the naming contest reveals the name

Brian sprays champagne

Pete, Brian, Alexandra, and William pose in front of the Eureka

Luftschiff hoch!

The zeppelin disappears behind Hangar 1

And continues past the water tower

And the zeppelin returns

Normal scenes out our window: a hovering Apache helicopter

A Russian cargo jet, after it has taken on some satellite or something

Later, it takes off into the sunset