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00 Virtual Museum
- 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
- Northeast Ohio Balloon Pilots Association
Tag Archives: high altitude helium balloons
Fighting Zeppelins with Airplanes, 1915
Source: Scientific American – scientificamerican.com By Dan Schlenoff Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: June 26, 1915 After the First World War broke out, airships quickly became a scourge. German Zeppelins bombed Liège and Antwerp in … Continue reading
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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Sunderland’s WWI Acoustic Mirror Restored
Source: BBC News – BBC.com A “forgotten” piece of history which Fulwell Acoustic Mirror was built in 1917 to help detect German airships following a series of Zeppelin raids on the North East coast. protected Sunderland from Zeppelin attacks in … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Fulwell Acoustic Mirror, high altitude helium balloons, Sunderland, World War I, zeppelin
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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.
See the World from 100,000 Feet
Source: Air & Space Magazine – airspacemag.com By Mark Betancourt Companies on both sides of the Atlantic are building capsules to carry you into the stratosphere.