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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: Uncategorized
March 15: Talk about America’s Forgotten Airship Disaster
Sunday MARCH 15, 2015, 2:30 pm Author Aaron Keirns will give a talk about his book, “America’s Forgotten Airship Disaster, the Crash of the USS Shenandoah” at the Garst Museum, 205 North Broadway Street, Greenville, OH 45331.
Posted in Airships, Books, Dirigible, Events, History, Uncategorized
Tagged Aaron Keirns, airship, Ava Ohio, Garst Museum, Greenville Ohio, LCdr Zachary Landsdowne, Noble County Ohio, USS Shenandoah
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Second Goodyear Airship Being Built at Wingfoot Lake Blimp Base
Source: Akron Beacon Journal – Ohio.com By Jim Mackinnon – Beacon Journal business writer Goodyear has started building a second semi-rigid Zeppelin airship inside its Wingfoot Lake blimp base.
Posted in Airships, Blimps, Dirigible, Uncategorized
Tagged airship, blimp, Blimp Hangar, Blimp NT, goodyear, Wingfoot Lake, Wingfoot One, zeppelin
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Google Continues to Make Progress on Project Loon
Read two articles regarding the progress that Google is making on Project Loon, a system of stratospheric helium balloons to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to remote areas. Source: The Independent – independent.co.uk Up, Up and Away on Google’s Wi-Fi Balloon
Neutrinos on Ice: Detection Balloon Heads to Antarctica
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Balloons, Uncategorized
Tagged ANITA III, Antarctica, helium balloon, high altitude helium balloons, NASA, Stratospheric balloon
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Google signs 60-year lease of Navy dirigible hangar
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.
Posted in Hangars and Sheds, Uncategorized
Tagged Blimp Hangar, Google, Hangar One, Moffett Field, NASA
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