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- Dr. & Mrs. A. Dale Topping L-T-A Museum Virtual Museum of the Lighter-Tan-Air Society’s Collection
01 Other Museums and Exhibits
- MAPS Air Museum – North Canton, Ohio MAPS Air Museum – Including the Control Car from the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Akron
- Summit Memory View The Lighter Than Air Society’s collection on Summit Memory
03 Associations
- Naval Airship Assn. Home of the Naval Airship Association
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Category Archives: Aerostats
Blimp-in-a-Box Goes to Work
Read two articles of new applications for this product. Ohio buys ‘blimp in a box’ for surveillance ‘Blimp in a Box’ Deployed in Search for Cop-Killer Suspect in Pennsylvania What is a ‘Blimp-in-a-Box’?
Posted in Aerostats, Uncategorized
Tagged aerostat, Drone Aviation Corp, surveillance blimp, Tethered blimp
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Blimps Will Soon Hover Over US Highways and Monitor Traffic Around the Clock
Source: Motherboard By Jason Koebler Next time you’re on the highway and see one of those “Speed Monitored by Aircraft” signs, look up—the United States is getting its first, persistently airborne traffic-monitoring blimp.
Posted in Aerostats
Tagged aerostat, Blimp-in-aBox, surveillance blimp, unmanned airship
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Lockheed Martin Team Surpasses Millionth Hour of In-Theater Airborne Surveillance
Source: lockheedmartin.com The Lockheed Martin-built and maintained Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) has surpassed 1 million airborne mission hours of providing around-the-clock, 360-degree monitoring and force protection for coalition forces in theater.
Posted in Aerostats
Tagged aerostat, Lockheed Martin, surveillance blimp, unmanned airship
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Surveillance Blimp Will Help Police Border
Source: Valley Morning Star By Dan Santella – The Monitor It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … no, it’s a Border Patrol blimp. Mobile, unmanned, aerial security surveillance has arrived in the Rio Grande Valley.
Posted in Aerostats, News
Tagged aerostat, surveillance blimp, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, unmanned airship
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Raytheon Tests System Using Blimps, to Enhance Radar for F-15 Fighter Pilots Using Air-to-Air Missiles
Source: International Business Times By David Kashi Floating 10,000 feet (3.048 m) in the air, a 240-foot (73 m) blimp can detect, track and target a variety of threats in a system developed by Raytheon Co., the Massachusetts-based defense and … Continue reading
Posted in Aerostats, Airships, New technology, News
Tagged aerostat, blimp, raytheon, surveillance blimp
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