Great cards Bujutsu, all of them! Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the top mast of the Empire State Building originally meant as a mooring mast for zeppelins? Seems I read that somewhere.
The beacon idea is also interesting, because I believe (again, correct me if you must) that tall buildings were required to have lights at the top partially (if not directly) because of the US military plane that crashed into this one during a fog.
Quote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the top mast of the Empire State Building originally meant as a mooring mast for zeppelins?
This is what developers tried to sell the public on back in the day:
Although that was the plan, it not only proved impractical but the idea was later suggested to have been more of a "stunt" than what could actually have been "reality", based on this 2010 NY Times newspaper article:
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Posted 06/24/2013 1:39 pm
