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Jersey Roots: An Airship Disaster Worse Than the Hindenburg

Posted on April 4, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: Asbury Park Press – app.com  By: Erik Larsen The Navy airship Akron did not meet its end in some great inferno, neither was its fate photographed by newsreel cameras, nor were the details of its demise described live over the … Continue reading →

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Wind Industry’s New Technologies Are Helping It Compete on Price

Posted on March 26, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: The New York Times – nytimes.com By Diane Cardwell The wind industry has gone to great lengths over the years to snap up the best properties for its farms, often looking to remote swaths of prairie or distant mountain … Continue reading →

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StratoBus – Halfway Between a Drone and a Satellite

Posted on March 21, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

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 →

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March 1936: First flight of the Hindenburg

Posted on March 21, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: The Engineer – theengineer.co.uk By Stuart Nathan The maiden test flights of the Zeppelin Hindenburg gave no hint of the disaster to come

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The new Gooyear Blimp makes its maiden flight.

Posted on March 17, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

This morning, March 17, 2014, a few minutes before 10:00 AM (EDT), the new Goodyear Blimp took to the air for the first time.

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