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Hello all,
Well, OK, they're not watching you yet. However, Nevada-based Airship Manufacturing intends for them to be. What, you ask, am I talking about?
Sky Sentinels.
Much like the larger (and discontinued) military projects of recent years, Airship Manufacturing has developed and launched a series of UAV airships intended for security surveillance purposes. The modestly large (at one hundred feet) ships will be capable of silently, if not inconspicuously, hovering around with up to 300 lbs of gear. Being capable of loiter and flight times much greater than their heavier-than-air counterparts, these new UAVs will likely become popular with police forces around the globe. Currently, US law prohibits their use here in the States, so the spy blimps won't be hovering around you anytime too soon.
For more information, check out this article:
www.gizmag.com/unmanned-airshi…
Otherwise, news in the airship world has been a bit slack lately. Worldwide Aeros is still pending FAA certification to get the Aeroscraft prototype out of the hangar and into air trials, but I'll be all over that for you all when it happens.
Until next time!
Well, OK, they're not watching you yet. However, Nevada-based Airship Manufacturing intends for them to be. What, you ask, am I talking about?
Sky Sentinels.
Much like the larger (and discontinued) military projects of recent years, Airship Manufacturing has developed and launched a series of UAV airships intended for security surveillance purposes. The modestly large (at one hundred feet) ships will be capable of silently, if not inconspicuously, hovering around with up to 300 lbs of gear. Being capable of loiter and flight times much greater than their heavier-than-air counterparts, these new UAVs will likely become popular with police forces around the globe. Currently, US law prohibits their use here in the States, so the spy blimps won't be hovering around you anytime too soon.
For more information, check out this article:
www.gizmag.com/unmanned-airshi…
Otherwise, news in the airship world has been a bit slack lately. Worldwide Aeros is still pending FAA certification to get the Aeroscraft prototype out of the hangar and into air trials, but I'll be all over that for you all when it happens.
Until next time!
Pedal Powered Airship
Hello all,
I recently stumbled upon a 2016 attempt by Guy Martin to cross the English Channel via pedal powered airship. Thus, for your viewing pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRtZrmGfz6w
Further inquiry indicates that this particular record has yet to be set.
Until next time, up ship!
The Hypothetical Sounds of L-30
Hello all,
I stumbled upon a most interesting "recreation" of what it may have sounded like aboard the infamous L 30, and by extension, any wartime Zeppelin. While we will never know for sure what serving aboard a rigid airship may have sounded like, this little video was imaginative and rather inspiring in certain ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plOkiZKXKQ
Enjoy and up ship!
The Zeppelin In Combat
Hello all,
The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918 by Douglas H. Robinson is a masterful work. It is one of those arguably peerless texts of military history that can engross and educate. Robinson's research, which was seemingly painstaking, took place over many years. His sources range from first-hand accounts with the then surviving members of the German Naval Airship Division to British Imperial war records and many things in between.
The Zeppelin in Combat is a must-have, in my opinion, for anyone interested in the history of rigid airships. While I have read several books on the more general his
BOOK REVIEW PENDING.
Hello all,
I finally ordered a copy of The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918, a book I've been meaning to get for several years now. If anybody has read it, give me your thoughts. I'll post a bit of a review once I've finished it to share with you all, so watch this space!
Keep the gas cells topped off, and watch out for thunderstorms!
Until next time.
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Mmmm..it seems we're living in "Gotham City" all of a sudden..with the automated "Police" blimps at night...1984, here we come again...