Airborne Blimp Advertising Takes to Sky over Sacramento Region

Thermal airshipSource: The Sacramento Bee – sacbee.com

By Bill Lindelof

Look, up in the sky: It’s a new thermal airship.

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Super Pressure Balloon Marks First Continental Crossing

01 Balloon progressSource: NASA – nasa.gov

Less than six days after launching from Wanaka, New Zealand, NASA’s massive Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) completed its first continental crossing April 1 flying over the southern tips of Chile and Argentina.

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Google Takes Over Aging Moffett Field and Its Airship Hangars

09 Hangars 3, 2, 1Source: San Jose Mercury News – mercurynews.com

By Matt O’Brien

Built for an age when 800-foot-long flying aircraft carriers were the cutting edge of aviation, the colossal hangars of the Moffett Federal Airfield are about to become roosts for Silicon Valley’s latest ideas.

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Gigantic Airship Launches Equity Crowd-funding Drive to Fly Again

01 Airlander 10 taxiing out of hangarSource: Engineering and Technology Magazine – eandt.theiet.org

By Tereza Pultarova

A company behind the world’s largest airship has launched an equity crowd-funding campaign to help raise funds to get its Airlander 10 off the ground again.

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UK Team Eyes Solar-Powered Airship Potential

01a MAAT’s primary energy source will be photovoltaic arrays on the airship’s upper surfaceSource: The Engineer – theengineer.co.uk

Researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, have completed a three year investigation into stratospheric passenger airships as part of a multi-national engineering project designed to provide a future sustainable air transport network.

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