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Source: Zeppelin Brief While building the SN002R, Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik (ZLT) has also ordered parts for the new Goodyear airships and has started to work on them. For example, the wiring bundles manufactured by ZLT have been installed in the rear … Continue reading →

Source: Zeppelin Brief On April 27, 2012, after only ten months of construction the airship “Bodensee” flew again for the first time. As a rebuild, kept its original Zeppelin NT serial number adding an “R” (SN002R). Through 2010, the airship … Continue reading →

Source: masslive.com By Kathryn Roy WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — The restoration of the only surviving example of a World War II Goodyear blimp control car is nearing completion, some 20 years after it started, at the New England Air Museum … Continue reading →

The Hood blimp has been sighted at the Akron Fulton Airport (KAKR), where it has been yesterday and today (July 27, 2012). We have not been able to determine the reason for the visit. The blimp is an American Blimp … Continue reading →

Source: WSGI.com KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — (MARKETWIRE) — 07/19/12 — World Surveillance Group Inc. (OTCBB: WSGI), a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, today announced the intent to unveil its proprietary Blimp in a Box™ … Continue reading →