Source: Aeros Corp.- aeroscraft.com
Initiates Fabrication and Vehicle Assembly
Worldwide Aeros Corp. (Aeros), a lighter-than-air (LTA) aircraft manufacturer operating with a FAA Production Certificate, announced today the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the company’s latest airship has been successfully completed and production initiated on 40E ‘Sky Dragon’ at the Aeros’ engineering and production headquarters in Montebello.
Source: PR Newswire – PRNewswire.com
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced today that it will donate the gondola from the Spirit of Goodyear blimp to the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.
Source: Hybrid Air Vehicles
Hybrid Air Vehicles are pleased to have welcomed Sir Gerald Howarth, MP who has officially started the Airlander 10 Engine Test Program. This marks another major milestone on the journey to bring the Airlander 10 to flight in the UK.
Source: MIT Technology Review – technologyreview.com
By Tom Simonite
Billions of people could get online for the first time thanks to helium balloons that Google will soon send over many places cell towers don’t reach.
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Source: BBC News Magazine – bbc.com
By Justin Parkinson
Britain was seen to lag behind other countries during the global airship-building race of the 1920s and 1930s. But a quirky scientific experiment 85 years ago briefly gave a boost to the image of the giant aircraft.