Guy Martin prepares for his latest stunt -
pedalling across the Channel on a giant AIRSHIP 26 May 2016.
TV star
Guy Martin dangles from an airship he intends to pedal across the
Channel.
The motorcycle racer and mechanic, 34,
was spotted in Hythe, Kent, while filming an episode of the new series
of his
Channel 4 show Speed With Guy Martin. A crowd gathered on the
seafront to watch his initial attempts at getting the blimp off the
ground.
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Im Juni wird ein Zeppelin über der Ostsee
schweben. Darin: ein Haufen Messgeräte und Kameras und einige
Wissenschaftler. Sie machen Jagd auf Meereswirbel.
Ab dem 18. Juni
wird der Zeppelin in Peenemünde auf Usedom abheben. Sein Ziel: das
südliche Bornholm-Becken mit Wassertiefen von 50 bis 70 Metern. Seine
Mission: die Fahndung nach Meereswirbeln in der Ostsee,
vergleichsweise kleine und instabile Mini-Tornados im Wasser.
Des maisons venues du ciel pour
les autochtones 11 Mai 2016.
(Ottawa) Une entreprise de la région de Montréal propose une méthode
révolutionnaire pour s'attaquer à la grave crise du logement qui
frappe les peuples autochtones dans le nord du pays : transporter des
maisons préfabriquées dans des usines du Québec ou ailleurs dans les
communautés éloignées à l'aide d'un dirigeable cargo.
Thales-Finmeccanica JV-Led Team Gets French
Govt Support on Stratobus Airship Development Project 27 April 2016
A team led by a joint venture of
Thales Group and Finmeccanica has
received approximately $19.2 million in funds from the French
government to conduct research and development work over two years on
an autonomous airship.
Thales Alenia Space
will collaborate with French companies CNIM,
Solutions F,
Airstar Aerospaceand
Tronico-Alcen on the structure, electric propulsion
system and other components of the Stratobus airship project under the
contracts signed with investment bank Bpifrance,
Thales
said Tuesday.
Solar Ship, un avion-cargo solaire aux
formes d’un dirigeable 16
avril 2016. Son design
est atypique, mais son attrait est important. Solar Ship aurait des
compétences susceptibles d’attirer le regard, notamment celui des
associations comme Médecins sans frontières. En parallèle,
Solar Impulse
2 a eu l’autorisation de décoller.Un
avion-cargo aux formes d’un dirigeable transportant 10 tonnes de fret
http://www.actuhightech.com/high-tech/solar-ship-avion-cargo-solaire-aux-formes-dun-dirigeable-6527.html
Let’s Fly Away: Meet a different kind of
pilot, April 21 at ‘Great Conversations’ 11 april 2016.
Terry Dillard would find it hard to start a union for people
who do his job.
After all, how many folks do you know
who drive a blimp? It is a profession as rare as the number of blimps.
Dillard is chief captain of the MetLife blimp Snoopy One,
with nearly a quarter century’s experience flying dirigibles all
around the country. In fact, he is traveling up to 90 percent of the
time.
£330m deal to bring futuristic airships
to Wolverhampton 3 April 2016.
A company based on Wolverhampton Business Airport has signed a
£330 million deal to become the first to operate a new
generation of airships. Read more at
http://www.expressandstar.com/business/2016/04/03/330m-deal-to-bring-futuristic-airships-to-wolverhampton/#upgTDyPsq8lp9kP3.99
A company based on Wolverhampton Business Airport has signed a
£330 million deal to become the first to operate a new
generation of airships. Read more at
http://www.expressandstar.com/business/2016/04/03/330m-deal-to-bring-futuristic-airships-to-wolverhampton/#upgTDyPsq8lp9kP3.99
A company based on Wolverhampton Business Airport has signed a
£330 million deal to become the first to operate a new
generation of airships. Read more at
http://www.expressandstar.com/business/2016/04/03/330m-deal-to-bring-futuristic-airships-to-wolverhampton/#upgTDyPsq8lp9kP3.99
A company based on Wolverhampton Business Airport has signed a
£330 million deal to become the first to operate a new
generation of airships. Read more at
http://www.expressandstar.com/business/2016/04/03/330m-deal-to-bring-futuristic-airships-to-wolverhampton/#upgTDyPsq8lp9kP3.99
A company based on Wolverhampton Business Airport has signed a
£330 million deal to become the first to operate a new
generation of airships. Read more at
http://www.expressandstar.com/business/2016/04/03/330m-deal-to-bring-futuristic-airships-to-wolverhampton/#upgTDyPsq8lp9kP3.99
Straightline Aviation (SLA) has become the first customer
to order a dozen hybrid airships from US aviation giant
Lockheed Martin.
SLA, based at offices on the airport, at Bobbington,
revealed in March its plans to start operating a fleet of
airships by 2018.
It has now signed a letter of intent to buy 12 airships and
is working with Hybrid Enterprises, Lockheed Martin's hybrid
airship reseller, to finalise the purchase agreement.
Read more at
http://www.expressandstar.com/business/2016/04/03/330m-deal-to-bring-futuristic-airships-to-wolverhampton/#upgTDyPsq8lp9kP3.99
Flugfreigabe: Zeppelin-Reederei
startet in die neue Luftschiff-Saison18 March 2016
Die Zeppeline schweben wieder über dem Bodensee: Am Samstag, 19.
März, ist offizieller Saisonauftakt der Reederei. Neben einer
Zusammenarbeit mit dem Europa Park in Rust wird die Reederei auch an
einem Forschungsprojekt beteiligt sein.
Goodyear’s newest airship holds first
flight12 March 2016
After months of blimp-free skies, there’s a new
Goodyear airship flying over the Akron area. Goodyear’s second
NT, or New Technology, airship – not yet named – took its first flight
Saturday afternoon at the company’s Wingfoot Lake blimp base in
Suffield Township.
Lockheed Martin joins race
to make long-haul airships 9 March 2016
Craig Johnston, director of business strategy and development, and
Bob Boyd, program manager, give a tour of the Lockheed Martin P-791
Hybrid Airship prototype on March 09, 2016, at the company's Skunk
Works facility in Palmdale. The prototype is one-third scale of a
21-metric-ton airship that will soon be available for customer orders.
Ride of a
lifetime in Snoopy One 5 March
2016 Pilot Terry Dillard takes the blimp
to Trump National Doral on Friday
My Friday mornings usually don’t find me sitting in a
passenger seat, a window to my right open, phone in my
right hand, Apple product in my left hand, notepad under
my left thigh and barf bag under my right thigh.
Then again, my Friday mornings usually involve school
drop-off lines. None of those involve hanging 1,500 feet
over Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster in a cockpit
gently swaying back and forth.
The other guy in the cockpit, airship Captain Terry
Dillard? It’s his every Friday morning. And afternoon. And
Saturday. And Sunday. As Dillard said, the MetLife blimp,
Snoopy One, knows no weekends and few days off. It’s busy
giving the TV audience the view of sports venues to which
we’ve become accustomed a few times a broadcast.
Igor Pasternak
started thinking about airships when he was twelve. Back then, in the
nineteen-seventies, he loved rockets. One night, he was curled up in
the soft green chair that doubled as his bed, in the two-room
apartment where he lived with his parents, his little sister, and his
grandmother, in the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine. He was reading a
magazine aimed at young inventors, and he came across an article about
blimps. He saw old photographs of imposing wartime zeppelins and read
about another kind of airship, which had never made it off the drawing
board: an airship that carried not passengers but cargo. It would be
able to haul hundreds of tons of mining equipment to remote regions in
Siberia in one go, the article said—no roads, runways, or
infrastructure needed. Just lift, soar, and drop
Swiss pilot Jacques-Antoine
Besnard wins the 3rd FAI European Hot Air Airship
Championship in Rottach-Egern (GER) before the two
Germans Andreas Merk and Ralph Kremer. The
European Championship took place from 24 - 29
February 2016 in the beautiful Tegernseer Valley
in Bavaria, Germany.
Am
Flugplatz Oberschleißheim knapp nördlich von München sind
normalerweise kleine Propellermaschinen zu sehen. Ein 75 Meter langes
Luftschiff ist eher ungewöhnlich. Aber zumindest während zwei Wochen
gehen hier seit Jahren Gäste mit dem Zeppelin zu Rundflügen in die
Luft.
Hat der Zeppelin NT, das NT steht für Neue Technologie, seine
Reiseflughöhe von mindestens 300 Meter über Grund erreicht, sieht der
Passagier je nach Blickrichtung die Fußballarena des
FC Bayern, den Anflugverkehr auf den Flughafen München oder die
bayerische Metropole. Bisher findet dieses Szenario immer nur an 14
Tagen im April während der Industrie-Messe Bauma statt.
Airships
Market – Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis and
Forecast, 2014 – 2020 23 February 2016
The
Airships Market is mainly driven by the low operational cost and
high competitive advantages of airship systems. Rising need for
persistent intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance in which
airships are widely used, helps to drive this market. In addition,
growing demand of airships for rapid communication and climatic
research is expected boost the demand of the airship market. However,
operational risk and availability of alternatives such as aerostat
systems are expected to hamper growth of airships industry.
The global airships market is segmented on the basis of method of
construction, by class, payload, application and region. Based on
different methods of construction of airships, market is segmented as
rigid, semi-rigid and non-rigid airships. Small, medium and large
class airships are the class segment of airships market. The airships
market can also be categorized on the basis of different payload, such
as electro-optics, communication intelligence, thermal imaging camera,
electronic intelligence, surveillance radar and an inertial navigation
system.
A mammoth
structure that once overlooked the southern tip of San Francisco Bay
is Fort Sill's newest entry on the National Register of Historic
Places.
It also has the potential to become the first entry in what would
be Fort Sill's second historic district. The first was the area around
the Old Post Quadrangle, designated the Fort Sill National Historic
Landmark in 1963.
"Henry Post Airfield and (the) Balloon/Blimp Hangar are part of
Fort Sill's aviation legacy," Fort Sill Director of Museum Services
Frank Siltman said. "The 1st Aero Squadron was activated here at Fort
Sill in 1915, and with the beginning of World War I, Henry Post
Airfield was activated and became an active part of Fort Sill's
mission. During World War I and World War II, training for aerial
observation from aircraft and balloons was an integral part of Fort
Sill's mission."
Lockheed
Martin’s airship needs no airport to deliver hundreds of tonnes in
Africa 20 February 2016
A novel concept to end Africa’s
logistics deficit is being proposed by the US defence company Lockheed
Martin, which intends to use airships to deliver payloads of hundreds
of tonnes into the interior.
Under the slogan “No Roads, No Problem”, the Hybrid Airships
division of the group is building an airship that will pick up and
deliver cargo where no formal airports exist.
“It will land on water, sand, a field, even ice,” said Rob Binns,
the chief executive of Hybrid Airships. The prototype had already
proven itself in Alaska, in the wildest of conditions.
Mr Binns was speaking on the sidelines at the African Mining
Indaba, where the company hoped to draw interest from mining companies
that were struggling with logistics difficulties across the rugged
continent. Oil and gas companies were also being approached. “This is
a dedicated cargo carrier, so it’s built with moving material and
equipment in mind,” Mr Binns says.
The first airship will be completed in 2018 and plans are underway
for a 90 tonne-lift model, which would have similar lifting capacity
to a cargo-configured Boeing 747. Eventually, a 500 tonne-lift model
will be built, which would put it in the same category as an average
cargo ship.
Skylarking
in Australia's only blimp 19 February
2016
Have you seen a blimp over your city? That's the one!
The Legend Blimp the only airship of its sort in the southern
hemisphere, and Ann Jones recently went for a spin.
Chronicle
Covers: When the USS Macon airship crashed into the sea 13
February 20
Pulitzer Prize winner Royce Brier wrote those words on
The Chronicle’s front page on Feb. 13, 1935, after the USS Macon, a
famed Navy airship nearly 800 feet long, fell into the sea off the Big
Sur coast.An explosion had occurred on board and an SOS was sent out:
“Falling,” the warning said. Then, “wait.” A splash-down soon was seen
100 miles from San Francisco.
China Chooses Solar Power for Airship in Near
Space5 January 2016.
The helium-filled airship has been positioned
near the top of the Earth’s atmosphere. It took no fuel to ascend that high
into near space. The sun powers it into position after an initial helium
bounce with
solar panels along the top surface of the
250-foot long airship.
The airship is a prototype to test an
airship that will be able to stay aloft for up to 6 months, powered with
solar panels integrated into its soft
covering. The Yuanmeng was tested above Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, according
to People’s Daily Online, an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist
Party.
The world’s largest aircraft is on track for
it’s maiden flight over Bedfordshire as more equipment is reattached to
the helium- filled hull.
Hybrid Air Vehicle’s Airlander, housed in Shed 1 at
Cardington, is being prepared to have its engines, fins and mission module
attached this month. The team have also got its state-of-the-art flight
simulator up and running and invited TV presenter Frankie Vu, from CBBC’s
Technobabble show, to undertake the first “flight” with in-house test pilot
Dave Burns.
