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00 Virtual Museum
- Dr. & Mrs. A. Dale Topping L-T-A Museum Virtual Museum of the Lighter-Tan-Air Society’s Collection
01 Other Museums and Exhibits
- MAPS Air Museum – North Canton, Ohio MAPS Air Museum – Including the Control Car from the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Akron
- Summit Memory View The Lighter Than Air Society’s collection on Summit Memory
03 Associations
- Naval Airship Assn. Home of the Naval Airship Association
- Northeast Ohio Balloon Pilots Association
Category Archives: New technology
Wind Industry’s New Technologies Are Helping It Compete on Price
Source: The New York Times – nytimes.com By Diane Cardwell The wind industry has gone to great lengths over the years to snap up the best properties for its farms, often looking to remote swaths of prairie or distant mountain … Continue reading
Posted in Blimps, New technology
Tagged Alaska Energy Authority, Altaeros Energies, BAT V4, Buoyant Airborne Turbine
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StratoBus – Halfway Between a Drone and a Satellite
Source: Thales – thalesgroup.com The StratoBus project may immediately call to mind Google’s Project Loon. But the advantage of StratoBus is that it offers long endurance and complete autonomy from a fixed position, while the high-altitude balloons in Loon move … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, New technology
Tagged airship, Stratospheric airship, surveillance blimp, Thales, Thales-Alenia, unmanned airship
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Goodyear Unveils New State-of-the-Art Blimp
Source: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Goodyear Reveals Larger, Faster Airship; Launches Nationwide Contest to Choose its Name
Posted in Airships, Blimps, New technology, News
Tagged Aerial TV coverage, airship, Akron, blimp, Blimp NT, goodyear
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Incredible Technology: Inflatable Aircraft Could Cruise Venus Skies
Source: Space.com A big robotic airship could ply the skies of Venus for up to a year, giving scientists an unprecedented look at Earth’s hellishly hot “sister planet,” the craft’s developers say.
How Airships Are Set To Revolutionize Science
Source: MIT Technology Review – technologyreview.com Airships can patrol the upper atmosphere, monitoring the ground or peering at the stars for a fraction of a cost of satellites, according to a new report. All that’s needed is a prize to … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, New technology
Tagged airship, high altitude airship, MIT, unmanned airship
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