Source: Lockheed Martin – lockheedmartin.com
Working with the Army, Lockheed Martin is providing operational support for a Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) aerostat system that is being evaluated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) along the Southern border of the United States.
Read two articles of new applications for this product.
Ohio buys ‘blimp in a box’ for surveillance
‘Blimp in a Box’ Deployed in Search for Cop-Killer Suspect in Pennsylvania
![Jules Didier and Jacques Guiaud, L’ Armand Barbès, 1870, 1914 [450]](https://www.blimpinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Jules-Didier-and-Jacques-Guiaud-L’ Armand-Barbès-1870-1914-450.jpg)
Source: The Paris Review – theparisreview.org
By Dan Piepenbring
Say you’ve got to skip town in a hurry. Maybe you owe somebody a lot of money; maybe the mayor’s daughter is in love with you and you’re below her station; or maybe it’s 1870, the Franco-Prussian War is on, and you have to ditch Paris because it’s under fierce siege and you’re the minister of the interior. In any case, here’s what history advises:
Flee in a hot-air balloon.
Source: ctnow.com
The Goodyear ZNPK-28 Blimp Control Car that has been undergoing complete restoration for the past 21 years at the New England Air Museum. A group of devoted volunteers have logged close to 24,000 hours to date working on the rare airship. This is the only WWII configured K28 blimp car in the world.
Source: Los Angeles Times – latimes.com
By Melody Petersen
Igor Pasternak plans to build not just a bigger model of an experimental air freighter but an entire fleet. Aeroscraft was planned as a gigantic air freighter that could carry heavy cargo to remote parts of the world.