Demand is ballooning for commercial blimps From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: July 17, 1988| Author: Meinolf Ellers | Copyright (null) Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

HAMBURG, West Germany Airships, or dirigibles, which dominated aviation here more than 50 years ago, are making a comeback.

They serve as flying billboards, their brightly painted exteriors advertising tires, beer, cameras or film. Cameramen shoot sports events from airship decks.

And now, 150 years after the birth of the airship's German inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, on July 8, 1838, experts say the craft has a definite future.

They envision lighter-than...

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