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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: unmanned airship
StratoBus – Halfway Between a Drone and a Satellite
Source: Thales – thalesgroup.com The StratoBus project may immediately call to mind Google’s Project Loon. But the advantage of StratoBus is that it offers long endurance and complete autonomy from a fixed position, while the high-altitude balloons in Loon move … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, New technology
Tagged airship, Stratospheric airship, surveillance blimp, Thales, Thales-Alenia, 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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Incredible Technology: Inflatable Aircraft Could Cruise Venus Skies
Source: Space.com A big robotic airship could ply the skies of Venus for up to a year, giving scientists an unprecedented look at Earth’s hellishly hot “sister planet,” the craft’s developers say.
How Airships Are Set To Revolutionize Science
Source: MIT Technology Review – technologyreview.com Airships can patrol the upper atmosphere, monitoring the ground or peering at the stars for a fraction of a cost of satellites, according to a new report. All that’s needed is a prize to … Continue reading
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Tagged airship, high altitude airship, MIT, unmanned airship
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Researcher Helps Remote Sensing Soar
Source: agprofessional.com Since Maria Tattaris began working at CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) two years ago, the blimp used by the wheat physiology group in Ciudad Obregón, Mexico, went from sitting in a box to being a main … Continue reading