Pentagon Wants Ideas for Flying Aircraft Carrier

Posted on November 14, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

DroneSource: CNN Tech – cnn.com

By Brad Lendon

  • Pentagon wants aerial platform to carry drones
  • Defense Advanced Research Products Agency is seeking proposals
  • Pentagon wants to use existing aircraft to launch and recover drones

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America’s First Flying Aircraft Carriers

Posted on November 14, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

03 The USS Akron over ManhattanSource: 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.

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Flying awards for Airlander at Cardington hangars

Posted on November 14, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Airlander in Cardington hangarSource: 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.

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Neutrinos on Ice: Detection Balloon Heads to Antarctica

Posted on November 12, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

An artist's depiction of a cosmic ray air showerSource: 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.

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NASA floats million-dollar airship prize for 20-20-20 vision

Posted on November 11, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Nasa logoSource: The Register – theregister.co.uk

By Richard Chirgwin

Balloons wanted: must stay 20km high for 20 hours and return 20kg payload.

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