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00 Virtual Museum
- Dr. & Mrs. A. Dale Topping L-T-A Museum Virtual Museum of the Lighter-Tan-Air Society’s Collection
01 Other Museums and Exhibits
- MAPS Air Museum – North Canton, Ohio MAPS Air Museum – Including the Control Car from the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Akron
- Summit Memory View The Lighter Than Air Society’s collection on Summit Memory
03 Associations
- Naval Airship Assn. Home of the Naval Airship Association
- Northeast Ohio Balloon Pilots Association
Author Archives: LighterThanAirSociety
The Navy’s First Airship Comes to Pensacola
Source: National Naval Aviation Museum In 1916, a popular American writer Mildred Cram took a tour of the Naval Aeronautic Station at Pensacola during a research visit for an upcoming book, Old Seaport Towns of the South. She marveled at … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, Blimps, Hangars and Sheds, Historical, Naval Air Station, Uncategorized
Tagged airship, blimp, Blimp Hangar, Cardington Hangars
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Blimps Will Soon Hover Over US Highways and Monitor Traffic Around the Clock
Source: Motherboard By Jason Koebler Next time you’re on the highway and see one of those “Speed Monitored by Aircraft” signs, look up—the United States is getting its first, persistently airborne traffic-monitoring blimp.
Posted in Aerostats
Tagged aerostat, Blimp-in-aBox, surveillance blimp, unmanned airship
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Newly Released Film Shows Different Angle of Hindenburg Disaster
Source: nbcphiladelphia.com By Vince Lattanzio A rarely seen video showing a different angle of the Hindenburg airship disaster in New Jersey has been released to the public for the first time in 77 years.
Posted in Airships, Dirigible, Historical
Tagged airship, Hindenburg, Lakehurst Naval Air Station, zeppelin
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To Space (Okay, Near-Space) in a Balloon
Source: Air & Space Magazine – airspacemag.com By Mark Karpel A little company dreams of replacing rocket power with buoyancy.
Jersey Roots: An Airship Disaster Worse Than the Hindenburg
Source: Asbury Park Press – app.com By: Erik Larsen The Navy airship Akron did not meet its end in some great inferno, neither was its fate photographed by newsreel cameras, nor were the details of its demise described live over the … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, Dirigible, Historical
Tagged Lt. Cmdr Wiley, Rear Admiral Moffett, USS Akron
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