Google Is Testing Its Internet Balloons in a Huge Freezer

Google Balloons at Eglin AFBSource: Wired – wired.com

By Cade Metz

Mahesh Krishnaswamy looks for leaks in Google balloons.

He works on Project Loon, Google’s ambitious plan to deliver Internet service from enormous balloons floating in the stratosphere.

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Lockheed Martin Launches Worldwide Hybrid Airship Sales

Carvalho and BinnsSource: Lockheed Martin – LockheedMartin.com and Hybrid Enterprises – hybridhe.com

Hybrid Enterprises LLC, acting on behalf of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), announced they will be taking orders for Hybrid Airships with deliveries planned as early as 2018.

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Goodyear plans tandem blimp flights over Cavs game and Akron this week

Spirit of GY and InnovSource: Akron Beacon Journal – ohio.com

By Jim Mackinnon

Attention, Helium Heads!

Weather permitting, there will be two Goodyear airships flying over the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Tuesday night playoff game.

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CDOT to test fly blimp over I-25 to monitor Denver-area traffic

Skysentry TEASource: Denver Business Journal – bizjournals.com/denver

By Cathy Proctor

The Colorado Department of Transportation this week will be test-flying a helium-filled blimp above Interstate 25 north of downtown Denver to monitor traffic.

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Sunderland’s WWI Acoustic Mirror Restored

01 Restored MirrorSource: BBC News – BBC.com

A “forgotten” piece of history which

Fulwell Acoustic Mirror was built in 1917 to help detect German airships following a series of Zeppelin raids on the North East coast.

protected Sunderland from Zeppelin attacks in World War One has been restored.

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