Source: Gizmodo – gizmodo.com
By Andrew Tarantola
Flying aircraft carriers are a great idea on paper – especially when they’re commanded by the likes of Nick Fury – but in reality, they’re more death trap than sky island. Or, at least, the short-lived USS Akron was. When it crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933, it took nearly everybody on board with it.
Source: Bedford Today – Bedford Times & Citizen – bedfordtoday.co.uk
Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Airlander has been hailed as the leading aerospace innovation of the year in two major awards.
Source: Scientific American – scientificamerican.com
By Katie Mulrey
Right now, somewhere in the Milky Way, a proton is traveling though supernova remnant shock waves, bouncing around in extreme magnetic fields and gaining energy and speed. Eventually the proton will gain enough energy to escape the remnant and travel through the galaxy. It might even head to Earth! If we are lucky, it will crash into our atmosphere, creating a shower of millions of particles, just waiting to be detected by a large balloon that will soon be launched over Antarctica.
Source: The Register – theregister.co.uk
By Richard Chirgwin
Balloons wanted: must stay 20km high for 20 hours and return 20kg payload.
Source: USA Today – usatoday.com
By Elizabeth Weise
Google has signed a 60-year lease on a former Navy dirigible hangar smack in the middle of Silicon Valley, NASA said.