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Met Life Blimp in Joplin

By: Drew Moore
Updated: October 11, 2012
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JOPLIN, MO.--- The Met Life Blimp made it's way into the Four States yesterday and is currently docked at the Joplin Regional Airport. It hovered over a football field in Wisconsin, and is on it's way down to Texas. Pilot's say flying a blimp is a unique experience.

"It's little combination of kind of like an airplane but it also kind of has the motion of a boat, or a ship on the water," states Bret Viets, Pilot for Metlife Snoopy 2.

The blimp will be taking off tomorrow morning, weather permitting, on it's way to Dallas, Texas for a Met Life event.

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