Cricket Australia want to shoot down Holden Airship!!

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Originally Posted by Falcon Freak

Holden states that their airship is legal - no argument there. But Holden's marketing ploy is not ethical. If you want to advertise at sporting events then you must pay for the privelage. Free loaders are not welcome no matter who they are.

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This blimp is legal to fly orbits within certain boudaries in controlled airspace, ATC will have them maintain a flight level of say 500 feet within a say 3 nautical mile radius. Holden's blimp is legal, but as Falcon freak has correctly pointed out, it is unethical.

To effectively hijack ones costly marketing efforts by having the competitions big dumb loophole circle overhead is plainly wrong, and I despise Holden even more for the inequitious tactics that they employ to pedal their Korean wares. To me, it is an act of desperation that a company would try to make regular, uninvited appearances to events because their product is not selling as well as they would have hoped. You can bet it will be there, and at the melbourne cup, and basically anywhere else they can try to squeeze a sale out of you from.

My solutions, Firstly, sporadically release pigeons throughout the day as some ceremony. Casa will not let them near it.

Secondly, CA should get a number of weather balloons, fill them with helium and have them on strings moored to sections of the park. Have advertising on them like ford or CA, and make sure the ropes to hold them are 500 feet long. This way Holden will only be allowed to enter at a minimum of 750-1000 feet, and here they are starting to encroach upon minimum separations for flight paths. My suggestion, nobody gets hurt, nobody is endangered, Holden is too far away to be noticed and everyone enjoys the cricket.

As for mr Achnackenbfefferhausen, relax, Holdenburg was hilarious. BTW, that picture of the holdenburg is not real, it occurred during the day and the hindenburg actually pitched nose forward and crashed. Secondly, heve you ever burnt hydrogen, it burns clear. The orange flash was the paint used on the canvas of the body, and it was ignited by the mooring rope on the nose of the hindenburg, the mooring tower was about 500 feet in front when it ignited, not seen in the pictures of the real event. So again, the picture referred to as Holdenburg is doctored, probably a still taken from a movie and ergo, not the actual footage of those perishing.