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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. |
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. |
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? |
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
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
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
January 2007
Frank Vizard |
Tech Watch: Radar Goliath Project ISIS (Integrated Sensor Is Structure) provides improved surveillance capabilities of military or commercial aircraft. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
March 30, 2011
Rich Smith |
Lockheed's Stinky Scientists Smell an Opportunity Skunk Works moves beyond Pentagon contracting. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
Scientific American
June 2009
Daniel C. Schlenoff |
100 Years Ago: The Flight of the Zeppelin II 1959: Self reproduction of machines and eating right in space... 1909: Writers needed in Hollywood, the latest Zeppelin airship, and the legal status of the snail... 1859: The design of steamship compartments... |
