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's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia royal court, where he meets the Sultan, and even to the Moon. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe. The lead character Baron Munchausen is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797, ), the fictionalized character was created by Rudolf Erich Raspe. The novel was the basis of the 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". An eighteenth-century German nobleman, Baron Munchausen,