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October 2010
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Airships for the 21st Century Long-duration, heavy-lift designs breathe new life into the world's oldest aircraft technology   |
Wired
August 2000
Mike Steere |
The Baron's Big Balloon A German aristocrat-businessman is relaunching the age of the airship, armed with millions in the bank and a team of crack engineers. Can superblimps rise again? |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2008
Erik Sofge |
4 New 'Blimp' Designs Bring Return of the Airship The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency recently announced funding for an innovative, ballast-free airship technology. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Hybrid Air Vehicles Make Gains On Traditional Airplanes Seventy-four years after the zeppelin, another gas giant arises. |
National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Military Seeing Different Applications, Wider Use of Aerostats and Airships Aerostats and airships are old ideas that are in vogue again in military and homeland security applications. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Jeff Wise |
Are Backyard Hot-Air Blimps the Future of Low-and-Slow Aviation? Its builders hope to one day sell Skyachts as recreational aircraft, but other blimp enthusiasts are not convinced a market exists. |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Turns to Engineers for Troop Transport Fix in Iraq: Analysis (With 6 Next-Gen Chopper Designs!) The Army and Air Force will seek Pentagon approval for the development of new aircraft that can carry big loads and land on poorly built, short runways -- or no runways at all. |
Scientific American
March 21, 2005
Steven Ashley |
Aerial Base Station Trying again: stratospheric airships for wireless communications. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2011
Rich Smith |
Lockheed's Stinky Scientists Smell an Opportunity Skunk Works moves beyond Pentagon contracting. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004 |
U.S. looks to unmanned blimps to improve missile defense Under management of the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. government is resurrecting the blimp, which last saw service with the Navy in 1962. Experts will test the High Altitude Airship (HAA) as an unmanned platform for a wide range of sensors for communications, weather/environmental monitoring, short- and long-range missile warning, surveillance, and target acquisition. |
Aviation History
Timothy J. Kutta |
Britain's Bold Strike From the Sea On Christmas Day 1914, an audacious British air attack on a Zeppelin base in northern Germany caught the Germans with their defenses down. |
Aviation History
November 2006
Wilbur Cross |
USS Shenandoah's Last Flight On September 3, 1925, captain and crew struggled valiantly to keep the giant dirigible on course and airborne in a violent Midwestern storm. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Wireless Goes Sky-High Will "stratellites" be the next big thing or the next big bust? This is a highly speculative wireless broadband idea from a highly speculative, penny-stock company. |
Wired
April 2006
Myser et al. |
Look! Up in the Sky! A new laser light show to space out to... Skywatching by the numbers... The hottest hacker on earth... Scoping out the enemy... The best: sci-fi concept albums... Laptop virtuosos... One man's tiny vision... Jargon watch... Inflating China's Olympic bubble... etc. |
Inc.
March 1, 2003
Eamon Javers |
Case Study: Spy in the Sky Having leased blimps to clients like Fuji Film, a company considers a whole new market: homeland security. |
National Defense
June 2011
Mark Signorelli |
Viewpoint: Military Vehicles Should Make Leap to Hybrid Technology One area where the military has the opportunity to apply technological lessons from the commercial sector is the adaption of hybrid-electric drive technology for tactical vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Frank Vizard |
Tech Watch: Radar Goliath Project ISIS (Integrated Sensor Is Structure) provides improved surveillance capabilities of military or commercial aircraft. |
National Defense
May 2004
Sandra Erwin |
Army Not Yet Sold On Hybrid Vehicles The Army's decision to stop funding the production of hybrid-electric Humvees is a clear sign that military vehicles will continue to be a tough sell in the world of fuel-efficient technologies. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2006
John McHale |
DARPA Asks Raytheon to Develop Football-Field-Size Radar for Future Surveillance Airship The goal of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program is to develop a stratospheric airship-based autonomous unmanned sensor with years of persistence in surveillance and tracking of aircraft and ground forces. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2010
Rich Smith |
21st Century Battlefield, 19th Century Technology Even if Lockheed might prefer to win high-dollar contracts for aircraft and satellites, it's just as capable of reaping revenues from smaller-ticket items like blimps. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Toyota's Fuel Cell Prototype Toyota has another hybrid - a fuel cell/battery hybrid from Toyota Material Handling U.S.A. First displayed at the 2007 ProMat show in Chicago, the prototype hybrid uses a battery to handle the peaks while the fuel cell carries the continuous base load. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2006
John Keller |
DARPA Researchers Set Sights on Future Stratospheric Surveillance Airship Officials are moving ahead with a plan to develop a high-altitude surveillance airship with a structure that integrates several different sensor systems. |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2009
Christopher DeMorro |
Solar-Powered Airship: Project Sol'R Flies on Rays and Hydrogen French engineering and tech students have created a 2.4-kilowatt, solar-powered airship. While they have proven that this one-man dirigible floats, they have yet to take it for a test run. |
Wired
August 18, 2008
James Lee |
Blimpin' Ain't Easy: Crossing the English Channel in a Pedal-Powered Airship* A 39-year-old Frenchman is hoping to cross the English Channel in a homemade, pedal-powered airship. |
Outside
November 2002
Dianna Delling |
Wet Zeppelin Windbags on a mission: Fighting fires with new super-soaker blimps |
Fast Company
October 2004
Chuck Salter |
Ford's Escape Route The new Escape Hybrid was the most complex project in Ford's history and maybe its most important product since the Model T. To pull it off, the company had to act in some very un-Ford-like ways. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2006
Jeremy MacNealy |
Lockheed Is Locked and Loaded The defense contractor posts solid quarterly results and highlights lots of growth initiatives. Investors, take note. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006 |
Hybrids at the Crossroads Sales are growing, but so is the controversy. Do gas/electric hybrid vehicles really deliver on their promises? Hybrid hype is put to the test. |
