Live from the Goodyear blimp

On New Year's Eve, CNN's Thom Patterson takes us on a flight aboard the iconic Goodyear blimp, during the exciting college football bowl season. Check out what it's like to ride high above Atlanta's Georgia Dome and the Chick-fil-A Bowl.

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By nature, blimps want to stay in the air. As #goodyearblimp pilot Matt Lussier puts it, blimps r "homesick angels." http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc3bVwXIYAAaDPn.jpg

by Thom Patterson via twitter 1/1/2014 4:05:37 AM
This propeller engine is turning 1420 revolutions per minute! #goodyearblimp @ The Georgia Dome -… instagram.com

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Q fr @LoyalUA1K : What drew Lussier 2 fly a #goodyearblimp instd of planes? For one, he gets 2 work closely w people http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc3Bb6rIcAAgMoS.jpg

by Thom Patterson via twitter 1/1/2014 2:12:26 AM
Capt Lussier answers two of your most asked questions about the #goodyearblimp 1. No parachutes (blimp flies too low) 2. No bathrooms

by Thom Patterson via twitter 1/1/2014 1:42:01 AM
OMG. Capt Lussier let me fly the #goodyearblimp !!! Both rudder peddles operate fine. I wasnt that great. :) http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc2sYGjIcAAqU-Q.jpg

by Thom Patterson via twitter 1/1/2014 12:40:25 AM
#goodyearblimp camera operator Tom O'Keefe at the Cineflex camera. It's suspended below the blimp's gondola. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc2rAeMIYAEeauI.jpg

by Thom Patterson via twitter 1/1/2014 12:34:27 AM
On Monday we welcomed the Goodyear blimp at Atlanta's DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. Ground crew members captured the 192-foot airship as it approached a landing strip, attaching it to a mast where it remains until takeoff New Year's Eve.

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Coming around for final approach

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