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IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Ron Hochstetler |
Airships for the 21st Century Long-duration, heavy-lift designs breathe new life into the world's oldest aircraft technology   |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Jeff Wise |
Just Don't Call it a Blimp It might look like something out of a Jules Verne novel, but this prototype of a hybrid airship could hold the key to tomorrow's long-distance, low-cost air transport. |
Scientific American
March 21, 2005
Steven Ashley |
Aerial Base Station Trying again: stratospheric airships for wireless communications. |
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. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
Science News
August 18, 2001 |
TimeLine: August 15, 1931 Another temple to the wind god... New blood test may decide doubtful parentage cases... World's largest airship being prepared for flights... |
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. |
Science News
March 29, 2008 |
Timeline: From the March 26, 1938, issue World fairs planned to show the sciences in action... Helium, sun element, soon to hold airship aloft again... 800 mile-an-hour insect debunked by science... |
National Defense
November 2004
Robert H. Williams |
Giant Airship Slated forIraq Mission The U.S. Army is planning on using what is described as the world's largest unmanned airship to support ground forces in Iraq. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
There Are Secret Blimps Protecting Washington, D.C. The billion-dollar blimps are designed for massive aerial surveillance of Washington, D.C. and surrounding environs. |
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. |
