After seeing a Goodyear Blimp floating above a recent Notre Dame / Michigan State football game, our kids had one simple question:
Dad,
Is there a bathroom on the blimp?
This question followed a long exposition on my part on the subjects of Hydrogen, Helium, gas densities, buoyancy, and the Hindenburg. But some things are clearly more important to kids than the chemistry and physics of blimp aerodynamics. I was stumped. I had no idea if the gondolas were big enough for bathrooms. A fair amount of web work or googling yielded no answer to the question, so we wrote to Goodyear. Today, we got this response:
Thank you for your note and interest in the Goodyear blimp. There are no bathrooms in the blimp, and although the blimp can stay
airborne for up to 20 hrs, during events and such the blimp is flying between 3-8 hrs with break times.
Fair enough. But 20 hours seems like an awfully long time to go without a bathroom break.
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Cute. I will add this to my endless list of useless (but not worthless) information. These seem to be the only things I can remember anyway. Thanks.
Correct, no bathrooms exist on a blimp. My grandfather said he would carry a milk bottle with him. When I see him next, I will ask what about #2…..
EWWW. I hope your grandpa didn’t use the milk bottle
#2 That is
how did #2 become such a universal term?
Gatorade bottles are best friends in this situation. We have to go this route when flying coast to coast trips in smaller aircraft with no relief tubes.