Source: Daily Breeze – dailybreeze.com
By Brennon Dixson
A familiar sight returned to the the skies over Southern California on Thursday as Goodyear’s next-generation blimp – a longer, faster, quieter, easier-to-maneuver craft than the one retired in March – cruised into Long Beach after a 2,600-mile, three-week journey from Ohio.
Source: The National Archives – archives.gov
The dramatic, fiery fate of the German rigid airship LZ-129, the Hindenburg, in 1937 is the most famous event of the airship age.
Source: Hybrid Air Vehicles – hybridairvehicles.com
Source: KUAM News – kuam.com
By Isa Baza
Poor weather may be putting a damper on plans of French scientists to release miniature blimps into a developing tropical cyclone near Guam. The scientists are here in the hopes of collecting information that could improve tropical cyclone forecasts in the future.
Source: The Press – yorkpress.co.uk
By Victoria Prest
A hundred years of Britain’s industrial and aviation innovation was remembered last weekend, in a village a stone’s throw from Drax power station.