Source: Ashtead Technology – ashtead-technology.com
Ashtead Technology, the global number one independent provider of subsea equipment rental, sales and services has been supporting attempts to explore the wreckage of the USS Macon, the United States Navy’s last flying aircraft.
Source: Popular Science – popsci.com
By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer
On October 13, 2015, China started the 24 hour test flight of its largest airship yet in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia.
Source: Bedfordshire on Sunday – bedfordshire-news.co.uk
With the refurbishment of Shed One now complete, Bedfordshire on Sunday went to Cardington to find out how you go about rebuilding one of the world’s greatest megastructures and how the airship is coming along Continue reading
Source: Western Morning News – westernmorningnews.co.uk
By David Wells
The Hindenburg was a symbol of Hitler’s Germany, a sign of Nazi strength and power in a world edging ever closer to war. In the 1930s the hydrogen-filled airship looked the future of commercial air travel and when the Hindenburg exploded on May 6 1937 in the US, the ramifications were felt around the world.
And 78 years after the famous disaster, two unique fire-damaged relics which survived are now going under the hammer later this month in Devizes, Wiltshire.
Source: CNW Group – newswire.ca
Three years ago, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner ascended to 38,969 m (128, 851 ft) in a stratospheric balloon and made a freefall jump, rushing to Earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground. The Red Bull Stratos exhibit makes its Canadian debut in Toronto at the Ontario Science Centre, highlighting the science and technology that made this record-breaking mission possible.