Argus One Scheduled for Flight Testing

Source: UPI.com

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Nov. 18 (UPI) — The mid-altitude Argus One unmanned airship will undergo free-flight testing in December at the U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Test Site.

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Inflation Good News for Airship Aficionados

Source: The Selkirk Journal

By Marc Zienkiewicz – November 19, 2011

Inflation is something usually associated with bad news stories about the economy, but for University of Manitoba professor Dr. Barry Prentice and colleagues in St. Andrews and region, it’s something to be celebrated. Continue reading

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Bravery award for Michael Nerandzic

Mike Nerandzic

Source: Illawarra Mercury

BY ANGELA THOMPSON – 19 Nov, 2011

Hero applauded: Lyndy Nerandzic has brought home a gallantry medal for husband Michael (left), killed while piloting a Goodyear blimp in Germany earlier this year.

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High society: a new airship paradigm

Source: theengineer.co.uk

14 November 2011 | By Andrew Czyzewski

UK engineers are at the heart of plans to develop a ’cruiser’ airship that could radically change the way goods and people are transported around the world.

It’s official: airships are back. It’s been a long and hard rehabilitation – more than half a century in the making – but they are beginning to be taken seriously again, not simply content with being a footnote in aviation history. Continue reading

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Goodyear Blimp Gondola Goes to Smithsonian

Source: Goodyear

November 14, 2011

SUFFIELD, Ohio, November 14, 2011 – The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is making another significant gift to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Tuesday – the second in two years – with the donation of the Goodyear blimp gondola, or car C-49. Continue reading

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