Airship Captain, Katharine Board, greeted me and my assistant/son, Riley, (the luckiest boy in the world), as we approached the blimp. I had to ask, "So how did you get to be an airship pilot?" "By being in the right place at the right time." was her reply. Board hails from England and is one of a small club- there are more astronauts than blimp flyers. On left: Second pilot, Ben Travis, oversees the delivery of extra helium for the blimp. Like a whale in the ocean, the blimp's huge shape bobs easily in the light breeze. It pivots without warning in a 360 degree arc around its mast. We were told, "Never turn your back on a blimp."