Airships

In Thomas & Friends, a blue airship (referred to as the zeppelin) made an appearance. It was closely observed by Hugo, who was jealous of how the airship could fly, but he could not.

In the magazines, a yellow and white airship was launched from Sodor Airport in 2007. Its maiden voyage was televised by Sodor TV and the Mayor of Sodor and the Fat Controller were among its passengers.

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In Thomas & Friends, the airship's upper-half and stabilisers are painted silver, while the lower-half and cockpit are painted two-tone blue.

In the magazines, the airship is painted white with a yellow lightning bolt with red lining. The passenger cabin is painted red and also has a yellow lightning bolt.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 20 - Hugo and the Airship
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Magazine stories

 * 2007 - Airship

Merchandise

 * Wooden Railway

Trivia

 * The Blue Airship is based on the real-life German Zeppelin Airship from the early 20th century.
 * Even though Zeppelin Airships were developed in the late 1890s, it wasn't until the start of the 20th century that the first Zeppelin Airship took flight with the maiden flight of the Zeppelin Airship LZ 1 on the 2nd July 1900. After the First World War, in the period known as the Golden Age of Flight in the mid 1920s, Zeppelin Airships had started to enter the commercial air travel market. While Germany had continued to develop more Zeppelin Airships for commercial air service, Great Britain had decided to enter the commercial airship market under the British Imperial Airship Scheme with the construction of two airships, HMA R100 and HMA R101 from October to December 1929.
 * Despite the potential that the Zeppelin Airships had, the Zeppelin Airships had a major safety design flaw where the liquid hydrogen used to give the Zeppelins' airbags were considered as unstable at certain temperatures. This flaw was a major factor in the destructions of the British R101 near Beauvais, France in the early hours of the 5th October 1930 and the German LZ 129 Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station near Manchester Township, New Jersey on the evening of the 6th May 1937. The destructions of both the R101 and the Hindenburg had resulted in the withdrawal of the Zeppelin Airships from the commercial air services.
 * The Yellow and White Airship is based on the modern version of the Zeppelin Airship, commonly known as Blimps.

Merchandise
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