The Lighter-Than-Air Society

Source: Panama City NewsHerald.com

By: ZACK MCDONALD / News Herald Writer

PANAMA CITY — The skyline of the Upper Lagoon has been adorned with something out of place over the past few days. Continue reading →

Source: BBC

A rare collection of previously unseen photographs of World War I airships in south Norfolk have been saved from the skip. Featuring aircraft based at Pulham St Mary from 1916 onwards, the images were taken by Royal Naval Air Service’s photographer George Hamilton Wakefield. Continue reading →

Source: wired.co.uk

Altaeros Energies, a wind energy company formed out of MIT, has been able to generate high altitude power from a prototype of its floating wind turbine in a test in Maine. Continue reading →

Source: Akron Beacon Journal

By Jim Mackinnon – Beacon Journal business writer – March 30, 2012

It turns out that shooting a basketball from a moving Goodyear blimp into a basket on the ground is difficult.

Especially since the shot, from on high in the blustery great outdoors, pretty much has to be a swish to go in.

But making such a shot is not impossible. Continue reading →

Source: RedBull.com

On March 15, 2012 Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a space capsule from an altitude of approximately 71,580 feet as the Red Bull Stratos project moved forward into the manned flight stage in New Mexico.

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