Overview
- The Goodyear Blimp is on a UK visit that will run until Tuesday, July 14, and is operating from Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster.
- The airship has made multiple visible flights over East, South East and Central London with sightings near the Palace of Westminster, Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf and the London Eye.
- Enthusiasts can follow the blimp in real time on Flightradar24 using the registration code D-LZFN for live position and route details.
- The visitor is a semi-rigid Zeppelin NT more than 75 metres long with three vectored engines that let it hover and manoeuvre for aerial filming and event coverage.
- The flight underscores the blimp’s long public role since the 1970s and its relative rarity in commercial service, and it is expected to appear at the Goodwood Festival of Speed before departing the UK.