Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang was an airship built for the 1968 film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". It was intended to represent the airship of Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria. Although fictional in inspiration, it was a fully functional flying airship. Vulgaria, and the airship, is drawn from Roald Dahl's screenplay for the film, rather than Ian Fleming's original book. The semi-rigid airship, whose appearance was designed by Ken Adam, was an approximate replica of a 1904 Lebaudy airship. The envelope was symmetrical fore-and-aft and short and deep compared to typical rigid airships, with pointed ends above the centre
Baron Munchausen and the Baron", in 2018. Sadler's Wells Theatre produced the pantomime "Baron Munchausen; or, Harlequin's Travels" in London in 1795, starring the actor-singer-caricaturist Robert Dighton as the Baron; another pantomime based on the Raspe text, "Harlequin Munchausen, or the Fountain of Love", was produced in London in 1818. Herbert Eulenberg made the Baron the main character of a 1900 play, "Münchhausen", and the Expressionist writer Walter Hasenclever turned the stories into a comedy, "Münchhausen", in 1934. Grigori Gorin used the Baron as the hero of his 1976 play "That Very Munchausen"; a film version was made in 1980. "Baron Prášil",