Published at The Business Journals, December 17th, 2013: “Mickey Wittman, known as the “father of sports aerial broadcasting” for his work in developing the Goodyear blimp’s role in sports television, will be inducted in to the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame here tonight.” By The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Click here to read this […]
“Commercial development of the Arctic’s natural resources has so far been near to impossible, but transportation throughout the inhospitable region may soon be revolutionized by airships.” By Jenny Soffel. Published at CNN, December 9th, 2013: Click here to read this article.
Published in Aero-News Network, November 20th, 2013: “Aeroscraft Corporation, the innovator of a new variable--buoyancy cargo airship known as the Aeroscraft, has signed a memorandum of understanding with flight simulator company CAE to explore potential business relationships leading to the development and delivery of simulation based training for Aeroscraft’s new aircraft.” Click here to read […]
Published in The Times-Picayune, November 27th, 2013: “Call it the little blimp that could. The as-yet-unnamed aircraft is only 12 feet long and 4 feet wide — nowhere near the scale of the Goodyear blimp nor the Hindenburg — but here’s the important thing: It can fly.” By John Pope. Click here to read this […]
“Lighter Than Air Systems (LTAS), a wholly owned subsidiary of World Surveillance Group Inc. has received an order from prime defense contractor A-T Solutions, Inc. for sustainment equipment related to its “Blimp in a Box” aerostat systems (“BiB”). The BiB related components are to be delivered and installed in staged shipments beginning immediately and to […]
Published at Public Opinion Online: “Don Shoop knew how to fly a plane before he ever boarded one because he spent many hours buried in a book, absorbing the required information.” By Amber South. Click here to read this article.
“‘All Over Albany’ recently posted this futuristic illustration of Troy, New York, drawn in 1916. The image shows Troy in the year 2016: the streets lined with streamlined buses and trolleys, the sky filled with giant airships and a rather phallic-looking building towering over downtown.” Published in Paleofuture, December 3rd, 2013: Click here to view […]
Published in Bloomberg Sustainability, November 27th, 2013: “Robin Young of Amur Minerals Corp. wants to dig for nickel and copper in Siberia where forbidding winters and poor roads make it tough to haul in equipment. His best option: fly it in with zeppelins.” By Firat Kayakiran and Thomas Biesheuvel. Click here to read this article.
“The US military has invested billions in airship programs to track militants planting roadside bombs but the spyship experiment is losing altitude because of technical failures and changing priorities.” By Daniel De Luce. Published in the Manila Bulletin, October 30th, 2013: Click here to read this article.
Published in the BBC, November 18th, 2013: “The US has been selling off its helium reserve, established in the 1920s to provide gas for airships – but even so, shortages have been occurring.” By Tim Bowler. Click here to read this article.