A picture taken on August 4, 2013 shows the Vexin region countryside pictured from an Airship Paris zeppelin. Absent from the skies of the French Capital for nearly a century, the airship now reawakens the past to offer its passengers a flight over Paris. (ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images)

It's a view of Paris from the air that hasn't been offered in more than 30 years. Almost 1,000 feet up into the sky, traveling at a leisurely speed of 90 kph (55 mph), tourists can now dangle above the French capital in the belly of a zeppelin.

Traveling by zeppelin hasn't been popular since the explosion of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg in 1937, which killed 35 of the 97 people on board, says France 24. But Airship Paris, the new zeppelin tour company in France, uses aircraft filled with helium, a non-flammable gas.

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"This is probably the most safe aircraft," said pilot Catherine Board in an interview with the Telegraph. "If the engines fail, unlike an aircraft, which has to come down, [the zeppelin] actually floats."

Tourists who are willing to shell out the $265 for a half-hour of flight can enjoy a bird's-eye-view of the Eiffel Tower, the Chateau de Versailles and the Seine River, reported CNN.

Airship Paris is hoping to expand its fleet and use it for scientific research as well as tourism, but the size of the German-made zeppelins might prevent that -- the ships are 75 meters (246 feet) long and five stories high, with the same width as a four-lane highway, says CNN.

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Two French 'Tigre' helicopters fly over Le Bourget airport on June 17, 2013, north of Paris, on the opening day of the International Paris Air show which will be held until June 23, 2013. (Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images)