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
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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.
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.