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
Source: AINonline
By Chris Pocock – November 12, 2011
Unglamorous though they are, aerostats are carving a substantial niche in the airborne surveillance business. Continue reading
Source: Congressional Budget Office Website
During the past decade’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has come to rely heavily on the continuous or nearly continuous presence overhead of both manned and unmanned aircraft to support ground troops. Unmanned aircraft that remain aloft in particular locations (or “orbits”) have been primarily used to provide timely information about activities on the ground and to attack ground targets on short notice. Continue reading
Source: TheAge.com.au
By: Darren Gray – November 7, 2011
At 2246 hectares, it is bigger than most farms in Victoria. It could, in fact, be divided into many farms, for it has a piggery, dairy, 5000 sheep, 600 hectares of broadacre crops, winery and vineyard, and an orchard of apple, apricot and peach trees. Just inside the front gate is a small olive grove more than 110 years old. Continue reading
Source: thestar.com
By: Tyler Hamilton
Mining companies operating in the most remote areas of Canada may want to take notice. Ditto for humanitarian groups looking for better ways to get life-saving medical supplies to hard-to-reach, disaster-stricken regions. Continue reading
