Up, up and away: Wonderful success story of the British balloon factory that can build all sorts

22Source: DailyMail.com.uk

– Cameron Balloons make between 150 and 200 hot air balloons every year

– Company was started by Donald Cameron, 73, who made western Europe’s first ever modern hot air balloon in 1967

– Small balloon is made from 1,000 square meters of fabric and three kilometers of thread

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Newly-uncovered film shows Hindenburg over Manhattan a year before its fiery disaster

Hindenburg Flying over Lower ManhattanSource: DailyMail.com.uk

Chilling footage of the Nazi swastika flying over the New York skyline has emerged in a new video of the doomed Hindenburg airship.

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Tillamook Blimp Hangar Faces Uncertain Future

Tillamook-Air-MuseumSource: KTVZ.com and Oregonlive.com

The Tillamook Air Museum and its fleet of historic aircraft is leaving the coast for the High Desert — Madras Airport, to be precise.

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Ice Roads, Airships Could Work Together

VarialiftSource: Winnipeg Free Press

By: Barry Prentice

A proposal to build an ice road from Churchill to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, has been presented with the endorsement of both federal and provincial politicians. Continue reading

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You Are Now Free To Move About the Galaxy: Airline Contest Sends You To Space

klmSource: fastcocreate.com

By: Joe Berkowitz

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines launched a guessing game whose winner gets to tag along on the first commercial trip to space in 2014. Be the envy of everyone on Earth. Continue reading

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