There’s a new blimp in town. The Goodyear Wingfoot Two just arrived in Long Beach and will be making its TV debut above the Staples Center Wednesday night, so look up.

"Wingfoot Two is 246 feet long. It’s nearly the size of a football field. It’s about 60 feet high," said Goodyear spokeswoman Priscilla Tasker.

 The old Goodyear blimp, the GZ20, retired from service in March, after 48 long years in the sky.

"It was a very analog form of flying, and we almost compared it to a classic car whereas the new airships in this Wingfoot fleet are like driving a Tesla," Tasker said.

But not quite as fast. The Wingfoot Two has a cruising speed of 35 mph and a top speed of 73.

The new one is big. It takes a lot of helium to lift a more than 19,000 pounds aircraft, Tasker said.

Most of it is the helium structure that lets the Wingfoot Two stay afloat for more than 24 hours, flying above golf tournaments and basketball games like the Clippers.

But it also holds some passengers too. The gondola seats 12, and if you want a ride … well, you need to be a Goodyear tire dealer or to win a charity raffle. 

Two pilots fly the Wingfoot Two, including Taylor Deen of Signal Hill, Calif. She’s one of two female blimp pilots in the entire world. She started flying for Goodyear at age 24 and used to fly the old blimp.

"It’s a little bit different than the old type air ship which had rudder pedals and a large wheel," Deen said, while navigating the Wingfoot Two over Long Beach on Wednesday for its first voyage with passengers. "It was very physical. This one’s a little more mental to fly."

Deen describes the experience on board the blimp as "kind of a boat on the ocean. Kind of a cruise ship. It’s very relaxing. We use the same principles of buoyancy as ships do and we’re so large that it’s very calming. IT’s very quiet inside. There’s not a lot of vibration, not a lot of noise. You really just get to enjoy the flight and the scenery."