This Sunday, May 6, 2012 – A FREE Movie at the Akron-Summit County Main Library

Posted on March 20, 2012 by LighterThanAirSociety

May 6, 2012 – 75th Anniversary of the Crash of the Hindenburg

To commemorate this tragic event, The National Lighter-Than-Air Historical Center will present a free screening of “The Hindenburg”, at the Akron-Summit County Main Library.

There will also be a display of historic artifacts from the event outside the auditorium.  Click here to see a list of the items to be displayed.

Visit our Current and Future Events page by clicking here for details on the movie.

Click here to see a slideshow pertaining to the disaster on cnet.com.

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Zeppelin to Get Radar for Airship Ventures Special Mission Group

Posted on March 19, 2012 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: everythinglongbeach.com

Airborne radar – like what will be featured on the Zeppelin Eureka – promises immediate benefits for marine-based science, technology and defense organizations. Continue reading →

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MZ-3A Airship Gets Reprieve

Posted on March 10, 2012 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: Navy Lakehurst Historical Society

With funding literally almost gone, the Navy’s MZ-3A airship left Florida in late February. Destination…  Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to be deflated and put into “mothballs”. The airship arrived at Lakehurst on the afternoon of Monday, February 27.

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Robot Balloon Cranes Could Revolutionize World’s Seaports

Posted on March 10, 2012 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: Innovation News Daily

Jeremy Hsu, Senior Writer, Innovation News Daily

Every U.S. good sold overseas or iPad shipped from China makes one of 500 million journeys aboard ship containers crossing the world’s oceans each year — a journey that ends at deep-water ports capable of docking and offloading the world’s biggest cargo ships. Now a U.S. entrepreneur wants to give every city or town an instant seaport with his vision for robot cranes floating in the sky beneath giant balloons.

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Border Patrol tests blimp-mounted surveillance system in Nogales AZ

Posted on March 7, 2012 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: Nogales International

By Manuel C. Coppola – Nogales International

That Beluga whale you may have seen in the western Nogales sky on Monday is actually a tethered blimp being tested by the Border Patrol. Continue reading →

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