Around 3:00 PM on Saturday, June 25, the Eureka, Airship Venture’s Zeppelin also known as the Farmers Airship made a stop at the Akron Fulton airport and moored near the Akron Airdock. The airship, which usually operates out of its home base at Moffet Field (near San Francisco CA) is on a countrywide tour.
Read on to see more pictures.
Source: Popular Science
The model USS Macon barely fits inside a two-car garage.
Quick Jaunt The airship gets 45 minutes of flight time on a single charge of its battery. Continue reading
Source: AkronNewsNow.com
Later this year a project by Lockheed Martin in Akron to build new high altitude airships for the Army will take a big step forward.
That process began today as the company rolled out one of the prototype airships for testing at the big Air Dock in South Akron. Continue reading
Source: American Forces Press Service
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, June 10, 2011 – The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support critical to operations in Afghanistan got its start 150 years ago this month, when a balloonist showed then-President Abraham Lincoln how a gas-filled balloon could help the Union Army prevail in the Civil War. Continue reading
Source: Der Spiegel
Pilot Dies as Airship Bursts Into Flames
The pilot of an airship died when the craft burst into flames as he was trying to land at an airfield in Germany on Sunday. The three passengers managed to jump to safety and were unhurt. Continue reading