The Lighter-Than-Air Society

“Learning by Rote”

Source: News-Journal.com Longview TX

By Angela Ward

Shannon Rote and Susan Stamats were easy to spot at this week’s U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championships: They were the only two women pilots among the 50 competitors.

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The Lighter-Than-Air Society was founded on December 10, 1952. To celebrate this event, throughout the year we will be adding new features to our website, with an emphasis on History. Visit our History pages (click on History on the Navigation bar at the top of the page) for features, including “This Month in Buoyant Flight History”. Also, you can now visit our Dr. & Mrs. A. Dale Topping Lighter-Than-Air Virtual Museum by clicking on Virtual Museum on our Navigation Bar

Source: Zeppelin Brief

While building the SN002R, Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik (ZLT) has also ordered parts for the new Goodyear airships and has started to work on them. For example, the wiring bundles manufactured by ZLT have been installed in the rear car. Piece by piece, as parts are delivered by suppliers they are incorporated in production and further processed  in the ZLT plant, assembled into different components and prepared for shipment to the United States.

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Source: Zeppelin Brief

On April 27, 2012, after only ten months of construction the airship “Bodensee” flew again for the first time. As a rebuild, kept its original Zeppelin NT serial number adding an “R” (SN002R). Through 2010, the airship had been operated by the Nippon Airship Corporation of, which went out of business in June 2010. Continue reading →

Source: masslive.com

By Kathryn Roy

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — The restoration of the only surviving example of a World War II Goodyear blimp control car is nearing completion, some 20 years after it started, at the New England Air Museum here. Continue reading →