The Hood blimp has been sighted at the Akron Fulton Airport (KAKR), where it has been yesterday and today (July 27, 2012). We have not been able to determine the reason for the visit. The blimp is an American Blimp Corp. A-60+ and is registered as N620LG. It left Sunday, July 29 in the morning. SteveH. reported having sighted the Hood blimp over Rochester, New York at 4:15 PM, heading east, presumably to the Greater Boston area. Continue reading
Source: WSGI.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — (MARKETWIRE) — 07/19/12 — World Surveillance Group Inc. (OTCBB: WSGI), a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, today announced the intent to unveil its proprietary Blimp in a Box™ (“BIB”) system at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s (“AUVSI”) Unmanned Systems North America 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 6th – 9th. Continue reading
Source: Seattlepi.com
MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Skydiver “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner has done it again.
On Wednesday, Baumgartner took another stratospheric leap, this time from an altitude of more than 18 miles (29 kms) — an estimated 96,640 feet, nearly three times higher than cruising jetliners. He landed safely near Roswell, N.M. His top speed was an estimated 536 mph (863 km/h , 0.8 Mach), said Brian Utley, an official observer on site. Continue reading
The New Zealand 2012 International Film Festival is screening a Norwegian documentary about the flight of the Italian airship Norge over the North Pole.
The following is the description of the film from the festival’s website: Continue reading
Source: KQED.org – NPR Northern California
By Peter Jon Shuler
The steel frame of the historic Hangar One, the 1930s airship station at Moffett Field in Mountain View, looms like the silver bones of a giant prehistoric beast. And for now, its future seems just about as precarious. Continue reading