How did the Goodyear Blimp get ot the Beijing Olympics?

Question

How did the Goodyear Blimp get ot the Beijing Olympics?

Answer 1

Where did you see it? closing ceremony?

Answer 2

From Newhouse News Service...

"As an official sponsor of NBC's coverage of the Beijing Olympics, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will have its familiar blimp logo appear on TV screens during aerial shots of the games that began Friday.

But don't be fooled.

It won't be an actual Goodyear blimp providing the footage. That will be left to Chinese crews in planes or helicopters.

"It will not be a (Goodyear) blimp because it's restricted airspace for the Olympics," company spokesman Ed Markey said.

It's not often that a Goodyear-sponsored event must go blimp-less, Markey said, but sometimes circumstances require that.

When Goodyear provided aerial coverage of the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, the Italian Alps were too high and the weather too inclement for the blimp to fly. Conditions were suitable, however, for an unmanned aerostat attached to a tether."

Answer 3

They deflated it first then shipped it over on a plane, then re-inflated it.  It would have been too dangerous and slow for it to float over from the US.

Or maybe they could have hooked it up to an airplane and towed it over.