  Ct4438 Member Username: Ct4438 Post Number: 44 Registered: 08-2005 |
Just saw a blimp with the Sanyo logo on the side over the St Clair Shores area. Any idea what's going on with that? Does it tie into the RiverDays festivities by chance??? I know there have been several times when aircraft that fly over Detroit for major events circle out over this area. | ||
Jfried Member Username: Jfried Post Number: 1002 Registered: 11-2003 |
I think that blimp is lost. I saw it in Mount Clemens last friday, St. Clair County on saturday, then Detroit on sunday. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1926 Registered: 04-2005 |
Here for the Jobbie Nooner? | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 735 Registered: 11-2003 |
I saw that blimp a few weeks ago when I was in SW Detroit. | ||
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite Post Number: 34 Registered: 06-2007 |
I say it in Troy 2 days ago, and then downtown 1 hour later. I have never observed a blimp flying around where it looked like the pilot was drunk like I did that day. It was doing nose-dives. | ||
Bohemianrobot Member Username: Bohemianrobot Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2007 |
That blimp was in Ann Arbor last weekend too. I assuming it was over here for the NASCAR race at MIS. | ||
Harsensis Member Username: Harsensis Post Number: 308 Registered: 07-2005 |
I saw it in Grosse Pointe, it was doing some circles around a group of small sailboats. I thought it might be here for the Pt Huron to Mackinaw race, but that is a month away. It was neat to see and the kids got a trill from it. | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 44 Registered: 06-2007 |
I saw it last week from where I work in Troy. | ||
Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin Post Number: 26 Registered: 08-2006 |
I saw it last nite. But this morning she got up and went home. | ||
Bigjeff Member Username: Bigjeff Post Number: 81 Registered: 08-2006 |
^^^^^ Hilarious.....Just got my laugh of the week!!! | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1583 Registered: 01-2004 |
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Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 1173 Registered: 12-2006 |
The company is an electric company. I can't think of anything that would put it here, going by that. | ||
Ericdetfan Member Username: Ericdetfan Post Number: 107 Registered: 02-2007 |
You can see the Sanyo Blimp docked at the Municipal airport on Grosse Ile from time to time. My grandparents live on the Island and I always drive by there on the way to their house. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1434 Registered: 03-2006 |
I saw it wednesday while playing baseball in the corridor | ||
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 333 Registered: 05-2006 |
Speaking of blimps, here's a couple of interesting shots from a few years ago. They were all Goodyear's but I don't remember what was going on that brought them all to town.   | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 236 Registered: 02-2007 |
^^^ Recon for an invasion by Ohio? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 706 Registered: 10-2003 |
http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/o ddities/page3.html | ||
Yupislyr Member Username: Yupislyr Post Number: 220 Registered: 07-2004 |
I've been noticing that Sanyo blimp hanging around over your part of the area off and on for weeks. | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 762 Registered: 02-2004 |
I've seen it around so much I went and bought a Sanyo phone. I think it's beaming suggestions into our heads! | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 55 Registered: 06-2007 |
Messages..in your head??? Was it message's like I heard from one of George Carlins special on HBO like this"Beaming secret lesbian meatloaf receipes into your head" Yeah that was on a Carlin special.... in the late 90's. | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 737 Registered: 11-2003 |
According to their website the blimp is on an 8 city tour spending some time doing charity work making stops at schools and hospitals to give children rides. | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 457 Registered: 08-2006 |
I saw see the blimp coming back from Jobbie Nooner out on the Lake a little bit ago! | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 11611 Registered: 10-2003 |
Ramcharger, Amazing picture! I had ran down to get my camera, as I was living at RIverfront at the time, and by the time I returned they were out of site. Would have been a very up close picture of them, but I missed the chance. Glad to see that SOMEBODY had their camera ready to go. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 699 Registered: 01-2007 |
Oh, BLIMP! Hell, I thought I read PIMP! Here it is flying south near GPF last week: http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/wed132 007109.jpg?t=1182548684 | ||
Jyogi Member Username: Jyogi Post Number: 5 Registered: 05-2007 |
Its been flying over Farmington Hills quite a bit over the past couple weeks. I wanna ride!! | ||
Harsensis Member Username: Harsensis Post Number: 310 Registered: 07-2005 |
Bullet you really need to get back to work!!! | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 36 Registered: 06-2007 |
I've heard stories from people in the roughest parts of town saying their neighbors would shoot at the Goodyear blimp as it flew overhead. That was a long time ago, but still, makes you glad they are still usuable and not all destroyed | ||
Jeffery47 Member Username: Jeffery47 Post Number: 11 Registered: 09-2006 |
Maybe here for the Buick Open? | ||
Ct4438 Member Username: Ct4438 Post Number: 45 Registered: 08-2005 |
Thanks Rjk for the answer!! That makes it even better to have seen the blimp around town now!! | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2392 Registered: 12-2005 |
These Sanyo blimps are far smaller than the Goodyear blimps, right? I once worked with a former Navy blimp pilot. He shrugged it off. I envied him  | ||
Esp Member Username: Esp Post Number: 85 Registered: 09-2005 |
It flew over Royal Oak a few weeks ago. I saw it last weekend in Troy and couldn't get over how maneuverable it looked. I saw the Goodyear's downriver a couple years ago. That looked odd. | ||
Flybydon Member Username: Flybydon Post Number: 139 Registered: 01-2005 |
All four GoodYear Airships over Detroit 2002 http://www.aerialpics.com/D/go odyear.html Sanyo Airship over Jobbie Nooner http://www.aerialpics.com/J/jo bbienooner07.html | ||
Flybydon Member Username: Flybydon Post Number: 140 Registered: 01-2005 |
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Sticks Member Username: Sticks Post Number: 336 Registered: 08-2005 |
quote: For whatever reason, that makes it sound like the blimp was playing baseball in Cass Corridor. Maybe I had one too many whiskeys.. And honestly, this thread is exactly what Sanyo wants: put a blimp above a city and hope it generates conversation, or at least puts the word (Sanyo) in people's heads. | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 184 Registered: 02-2006 |
I saw the very same blimp Wednesday afternoon over Bloomfield and Pontiac. In other blimp news, one night about 2 years ago I kept hearing what sounded like an engine constantly moaning overhead. I went outside to see the Goodyear blimp hovering! I realized it was here for the Pistons game back when they were in the finals. I ended up seeing it the next day docked at Oakland Airport. | ||
Ohudson Member Username: Ohudson Post Number: 249 Registered: 09-2004 |
I saw this blimp tonight flying over downtown. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 700 Registered: 01-2007 |
Harsensis, I'll be 'back' on Monday [sigh].In the mean time, I'm on pimp patrol. Say, wouldn't it be cool to have a demolition derby with these things? | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 5504 Registered: 11-2004 |
I read somewhere that the Good Year blimps DO get shot at every year. Kinda scary but I guess unless there is a catastrophic loss of helium, it'll remain afloat for a very very long time still. It's mind boggling that people have nothing better to do than to shoot at blimps. | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 530 Registered: 12-2003 |
Sanyo was over Wayne State on Sat morning. I was walking the dogs across Matthei and saw it around 630am | ||
Hornist9 Member Username: Hornist9 Post Number: 39 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've seen it quite a bit. Over Warren near the GM Tech Center, and last Saturday at the Gratiot Cruise. My grand children love looking for it...I thought it was here for the Cruise. It was also seen on the Jobbie Nooner website overlooking the debauchery... | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 9502 Registered: 12-2003 |
I was laughing as the crowd got distracted by this blimp instead of watching the excellent Kenny Wayne Shepherd concert. Pilot was doing some radical dives, surely to GET their attention! Plus, I'd guess floating around to the drone of the engines can get a little boring, gotta do something to spice up the flight if Mother Nature doesn't fuck with it first. A few of the rednecks in the crowd made like they were aiming and shooting at it...heck, I did too, the sunburn from last week's Duluth Marathon hasn't quite faded. Then I realized that Target should never have advertising blimps... | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4651 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Goodyear Blimps and these Sanyo blimps are puny compared to the original German Zeppelin's of the 20's & 30's. | ||
Oilcan_harry Member Username: Oilcan_harry Post Number: 8 Registered: 08-2006 |
"....that Goodyear blimps get shot at every year." How lousy a shot to you have to be, to be challenged by shooting at a Blimp? For crying outr loud they're HUGE! Its kind of like hitting the broadside of a barn. But when ya remember that the drive-by gangsters usually hit everybody except who they're after, maybe it is an accomplishment. | ||
Ericdetfan Member Username: Ericdetfan Post Number: 110 Registered: 02-2007 |
Sticks, You not a buzzed as you think: In grammar, a dangling modifier is a misplaced modifier, a word or phrase that is intended to modify one element of a sentence, but that owing to its placement in the sentence, seems to modify another element, or none at all. (A modifier is an adjective or adverb that changes the meaning of another word. An adjective modifies the meaning of a noun or pronoun, while an adverb modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb.) A dangling modifier is commonly an adverbial phrase which, rather than modifying the grammatical subject of the sentence, seems to modify an unintended noun or pronoun due to the position the modifier occupies within the sentence; a dangling modifier most often appears at the very beginning of a sentence. An example from Strunk and White's Elements of Style: "Being in a dilapidated condition; I was able to buy the house very cheap." The sentence is presumably intended to mean, "The house being in a dilapidated condition, I was able to buy it cheap". In the flawed version, the placement of the participial phrase "being in a dilapidated condition" makes it difficult to know whether it is the house or the speaker, "I", that is dilapidated. Modifiers sometimes are intended to describe the attitude or mood of the speaker, even when the speaker isn't part of the sentence. Some such modifiers are fairly standard and are not considered dangling modifiers—"speaking of [topic]", for example, is commonly used as a transition from one topic to a related one. However, in a sentence such as "fuming, she left the room", "fuming" can only mean one thing, it modifies "she". from wikipedia I love misplaced modifiers because they are always funny once you notice them. | ||
Rbdetsport Member Username: Rbdetsport Post Number: 294 Registered: 11-2005 |
Saw the blimp at riverdays last night. | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 59 Registered: 06-2007 |
I saw the Blimp in Chesterfield yesterday. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1708 Registered: 05-2005 |
the blimp was over the downriver area late saturday, and i saw it rising from the riverfront this morning before 8am. my only guess is that maybe someone is using to make arial shots for SE michigan publicity or mabye one of the online map programs like live view or something given the frequency of flights and varied locales its been spotted above | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 9510 Registered: 12-2003 |
Not to be a buzzkill, but Homeland Security did have some money for a blimp-based camera surveillance system...for urban areas, especially during public events. I'd go looking for the link, but I'm too lazy today. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 727 Registered: 10-2003 |
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Mkhopper Member Username: Mkhopper Post Number: 5 Registered: 02-2006 |
Saw it today buzzing over the Ford / Rouge area around 10:30a or so this morning. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1090 Registered: 07-2004 |
I could totally see it being some sort of "eye in the sky" for Homeland Security, down to the incompetent choice of pimping an electric company over the Motor City. "Look at that blimp! He's riding a zeppelin!" | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 747 Registered: 11-2003 |
I was curious about the size comparison. The Sanyo blimp is 165 ft long. The four active Goodyear blimps are 192 ft long. The Hindenburg was 804 ft long. Hindenburg disaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =F54rqDh2mWA (Message edited by rjk on June 25, 2007) | ||
Deputy Member Username: Deputy Post Number: 95 Registered: 02-2004 |
Yeah, that thing has been everywhere lately. Saw it this morning before taking my right turn off Mt. Elliot onto Gratiot. Also, have seen it the last two Saturdays over Cass Lake. | ||
Flybydon Member Username: Flybydon Post Number: 144 Registered: 01-2005 |
FYI. The Sanyo airship mooring team was located at the Grosse Isle airport.  |
