Former employees launch Stratus Aerospace, LLC.
Mav6 announced that it has divested its airship business to narrow its technology focus. The Vicksburg, Mississippi-based defense technology company had leveraged this capability to execute work on the Blue Devil Block 2 system — a long endurance airship integrated with advanced sensor payloads built for the US Air Force. The USAF ultimately cancelled the program. Continue reading
Source: Ohio.com
Famous announcer makes history in 1927 radio broadcast from the Goodyear blimp
By Mark J. Price, Beacon Journal staff writer
Somewhere in the darkness, high above the glow of the city, a distant voice rang out from the clouds.
Source: The New York Times – Media Decoder
By Stuart Elliott – September 7, 2012
A leading outdoor advertising company is expanding its air force by adding ad blimps to its fleet of planes that carry ad banners.
Source: Akron Beacon Journal
Piece by piece, $63 million overhaul of iconic blimp fleet gets under way in Suffield Twp.
Wingfoot hangar receives its first shipment of parts from Germany for next generation of famous airship
Source:Los Angeles Times
Southland aerospace firms are building the next generation of blimps and other airships. Continue reading