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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
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Tag Archives: Google
Google Is Testing Its Internet Balloons in a Huge Freezer
Source: Wired – wired.com By Cade Metz Mahesh Krishnaswamy looks for leaks in Google balloons. He works on Project Loon, Google’s ambitious plan to deliver Internet service from enormous balloons floating in the stratosphere.
Posted in Balloons, Helium Balloons, Stratospheric Balloons
Tagged Eglin Air Force Base, Google, Google internet-beaming balloons, Google Loon Project, Hangar One, helium balloon, high altitude helium balloons, McKinley Climatic Laboratory, Moffett Field, Project Loon, Stratospheric balloon
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Google’s Project Loon Improves Balloon Launching and Interaction
Google’s Project Loon Gets ‘Autolauncher’, Mesh Networking Source: PCMag.com By David Murphy Google’s Internet-delivering stratospheric balloons now need far fewer ground stations for their connections.
Google Takes Over Aging Moffett Field and Its Airship Hangars
Source: San Jose Mercury News – mercurynews.com By Matt O’Brien Built for an age when 800-foot-long flying aircraft carriers were the cutting edge of aviation, the colossal hangars of the Moffett Federal Airfield are about to become roosts for Silicon … Continue reading
Posted in Hangars and Sheds, History
Tagged Blimp Hangar, Google, Hangar One, Moffett Field, NASA Ames Research Center, Planetary Ventures, USS Macon
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Project Loon: Google’s Stratospheric Internet Balloons
Source: MIT Technology Review – technologyreview.com By Tom Simonite Billions of people could get online for the first time thanks to helium balloons that Google will soon send over many places cell towers don’t reach.
Google Continues to Make Progress on Project Loon
Read two articles regarding the progress that Google is making on Project Loon, a system of stratospheric helium balloons to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to remote areas. Source: The Independent – independent.co.uk Up, Up and Away on Google’s Wi-Fi Balloon