Author Archives: LighterThanAirSociety

Source: Congressional Budget Office Website During the past decade’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has come to rely heavily on the continuous or nearly continuous presence overhead of both manned and unmanned aircraft to support ground troops. … Continue reading →

Source: TheAge.com.au By: Darren Gray – November 7, 2011 At 2246 hectares, it is bigger than most farms in Victoria. It could, in fact, be divided into many farms, for it has a piggery, dairy, 5000 sheep, 600 hectares of … Continue reading →

Source: thestar.com By: Tyler Hamilton Mining companies operating in the most remote areas of Canada may want to take notice. Ditto for humanitarian groups looking for better ways to get life-saving medical supplies to hard-to-reach, disaster-stricken regions.

Source: Cosmiclog on msnbc.com By Alan Boyle NASA is working with a little-known Oregon company on a variety of trial balloons, ranging from suborbital near-spacecraft to a probe that would float through the smoggy atmosphere of a Saturnian moon. The launching … Continue reading →

Source: Flightglobal The Northrop Grumman/Hybrid Air Vehicles long-endurance multi-intelligence vehicle (LEMV) is now scheduled to fly in November after a three-month delay. The LEMV program is now running more than a month behind its scheduled first flight, which was revealed … Continue reading →