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Byline: Karen Pinchin
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a -- dirigible? Zeppelin NT is now offering scenic rides over southern Germany. Floating serenely over forests and lakes, the aircraft delivers a taste of the romance and luxury enjoyed a century ago by transatlantic air barons. It carries just 12 people, is kept aloft by nonflammable helium and sports giant picture windows that offer breathtaking 360-degree vistas. As long as a Boeing 747, the mammoth ship lifts off from Friedrichshafen, the lakeside town where Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin invented ...