Neighbor Catherine spotted the Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT yesterday as it made an early-evening cruise over Bernalwood. She says:
“Blimp, Bernal, Sunset…. Ooooh!”
Ooooh! Definitely. But “blimp?” Well, not quite. For those keeping score at home, the Zeppelin is a rigid-framed, steerable dirigible, not a balloon-like blimp. (For a closer look at this Zeppelin, here are some photos I took during a flight aboard it in 2008.)
But what was the Zeppelin doing over Bernal Heights? There can be only one answer: Scouting potential landing zones to convert Sutrito Tower into our futuristic Air Terminal of Tomorrow!
PHOTOS: Neighbor Catherine
Bernalwood 
Hmmm… Sutrito Zepellin and Space Port… I like the sound of that.
The dirigiblistas scouted Bernal in the previous decade, but the lack of an Esmeralda Funicular to 30th St. BART proved a non-starter.
See also the reference to a landing strip the city considered building atop Bernal (I buried it after the Bernal gold rush description).
I’d really love to find some secondary references on that. I can only imagine the meeting. “We need a landing strip. Hmm. Twin Peaks? No… McLaren? No… Dolores Park? No…”