In Pete's World, Cybus Airships were a Zeppelin service operated by Cybus Industries.
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In Pete's World, (TV: Doomsday [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006)., PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Steve Tribe, BBC Books (2008).) Zeppelins covered the skies of London in February 2007 and were owned by the richest businessmen. They were typically made from a light aluminium alloy. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Tom MacRae, adapted from Spare Parts (Marc Platt), Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)
The Cybus Industries website claimed that Cybus Finance gave people the ability to pay for a trip in a Cybus Airship. The necessity of the service was rationalised in an article published by Cybus. (PROSE: About Cybus [+]Joseph Lidster, Cybus (BBC, 2006).)
A Zeppelin owned by John Lumic had a gondola, complete with crew accommodation, such as for when the President and Pete Tyler witnessed Lumic's presentation on "Cybermen". Secretly, Lumic was also capable of transmitting a signal to Londoners' EarPods from a transmitter protruding from the front of his ship; this forcibly brought the humans to Battersea Cyber-factory to be upgraded. John kept at least one brainless Cyberman onboard. Jake Simmonds and Mickey Smith tricked the Cyberman into punching the transmitter controls, releasing the humans from being controlled. The high voltage disabled the Cyberman. This Zeppelin was later used by the Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Pete Tyler as a means of escape from the exploding Battersea Power Station. (TV: The Age of Steel [+]Tom MacRae, adapted from Spare Parts (Marc Platt), Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)
Jackie and Pete Tyler once took a private zeppelin to Malaga. (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide [+]Jenny T Colgan, The Target Storybook (2019).)
