The Lighter-Than-Air Society

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TOME, N.M. – Nine-year-old Bobby Bradley floated into history early Saturday, taking off solo in a hot air balloon and landing perfectly about a half-hour later to become the youngest trained pilot to accomplish such a feat.

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The first race event held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in June of 1909 was a helium gas-filled balloon race.  Read more about it on the Fun Facts page of the Learn section. Click here to see this page.

Source: Aviation Week

Under a little-publicized program sponsored by the Pentagon, a small Southern California company is working on a design that is radical even by the quirky standards of buoyancy-aided aircraft: a rigid-hulled aircraft that varies its density to land and take off vertically. Continue reading →

Goodyear and  Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik have announced a contract by which Goodyear agrees to buy three Zeppelin NT aircraft to replace their current fleet of blimps.  Find out more by clicking here.

Source: The Daily Climate

A safer generation of airships is trying to usher in a low-carbon future for air cargo. The initial target: Developing markets – China, Africa, northern Canada – where transportation infrastructure is nonexistent.

By Bruce Dorminey For the Daily Climate

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