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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
Author Archives: LighterThanAirSociety
Principles of Aerostatics – A new book
Principles of Aerostatics, a new book by John Taylor, a lighter-than-air flight test engineer and consultant. Principles of Aerostatics presents the complete theory of static lift for airships, aerostats and balloons.
First Images of a Comet from a Stratospheric Balloon
Source: The Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University – jhuapl.edu The images are the first ever taken of a comet from a stratospheric scientific balloon mission, and show that Siding Spring was undergoing an outburst event, during which … Continue reading
Above and beyond: New surveillance system to guard against aerial, maritime threats
Source: Channel NewsAsia – channelnewsasia.com Singapore’s Aerostat System – a tethered balloon that uses low-level radar to detect threats as far as 200km away – will be deployed early next year.
Posted in Aerostats, Airships
Tagged aerostat, Singapore Armed Froces, surveillance blimp, unmanned airship
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Lockheed Martin Extends Aerostat Mission By Providing Airborne Surveillance For U.S. Border Protection
Source: Lockheed Martin – lockheedmartin.com Working with the Army, Lockheed Martin is providing operational support for a Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) aerostat system that is being evaluated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) … Continue reading
Posted in Aerostats, Airships
Tagged aerostat, blimp, Lockheed Martin, Tethered blimp, unmanned airship
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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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