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Snoopy Three Blimp From Metlife Tour by Charlie Smith Chief Pilot — Ready to fly

Charlie Smith takes us on a tour of the newest Airship from MetLife. Read more…

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Funeral Director to Metlife Cheif Pilot of Snoopy Two Airship (Blimp) by Video Scottsdale

Interview with Bret Viets Chief Pilot of Snoopy Two Airship for Metlife. Bret spent almost 30 years running his family’s funeral home. Here what he has to say.

“I’ve been coast-to-coast from New England, to California to Las Vegas to the Gulf Coast, and to see the country at 1,000 feet at 30 miles an hour is great,” said Viets, who’s married with two grown children. “We don’t have an office. This is our office.”jsw_img_0038

Piloting for a PGA Tour event is more challenging than a football game, for which the blimp basically circles for an overhead shot while not specifically focusing on anything in particular.
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2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open Golf-MetLife Blimp- What it take to provide video from Blimp

 Take a ride over the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open.  Find out what it takes to put the blimp in the air.
  The MetLife Blimp Program, initiated in 1987, underwent an expansion in 1994. MetLife
 operates three airships. known as “Snoopy One,” “Snoopy Two,” and "Snoopy J." Structurally, the blimps
 are the same A60+ model. All of the blimps are permanently decaled with the corporate logo
 “MetLife” on either side.
Golf over Scottsdale AZApibestinclass.com   Met Life Blimp Snoopy Two 
 “Snoopy Two” was launched from Hillsboro, Oregon in October, 1993. The primary difference Read more...

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