Source: NASA – nasa.gov
By Jeremy Eggers
New and vintage planes zoomed over the skies in Wanaka, New Zealand, during the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow, a biennial homage to aviation history as well as an aerobatics spectacle.
With history a focal point of the event, NASA’s Balloon Program proved a perfect fit alongside the warbirds, serving as a gentle reminder that before the first plane took to the skies, more than a hundred years earlier, there were balloons.
Source: CNN – cnn.com
It’s hard to imagine keeping secrets about an aircraft so spectacularly huge that the Guinness Book of Records is believed to be just days away from rubber-stamping its entry.
But until the vast new Airlander 10 airship was unveiled fully assembled in a giant hangar north of London on March 21, it still had a few to reveal.
Source: Bristol Post – bristolpost.co.uk
By EmmaGrimshaw
These picturesque photos show the moment a Bristol man set the world record for flying over all of America’s mainland states in a hot air balloon in just 33 days.
It took Andrew Holly, from Totterdown, a little over a month to sail his huge red balloon over all of North America’s states.
Source: Akron Beacon Journal – ohio.com
By Jim Mackinnon
After months of blimp-free skies, there’s a new Goodyear airship flying over the Akron area.
Source: Los Angeles Tines –latimes.com
By Samantha Masunaga
The secretive Skunk Works in Palmdale has over the years spawned such sleek aircraft as the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane and the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter.
Today, one of the facility’s hangars houses a 120-foot-long, 21-foot-tall dirigible that resembles a cloud with three puffs — the prototype of a much larger Hybrid Airship that Lockheed Martin Corp. has touted as a way to deliver heavy cargo and personnel to remote locations.