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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
Wind Industry’s New Technologies Are Helping It Compete on Price
Source: The New York Times – nytimes.com By Diane Cardwell The wind industry has gone to great lengths over the years to snap up the best properties for its farms, often looking to remote swaths of prairie or distant mountain … Continue reading
Posted in Blimps, New technology
Tagged Alaska Energy Authority, Altaeros Energies, BAT V4, Buoyant Airborne Turbine
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StratoBus – Halfway Between a Drone and a Satellite
Source: Thales – thalesgroup.com The StratoBus project may immediately call to mind Google’s Project Loon. But the advantage of StratoBus is that it offers long endurance and complete autonomy from a fixed position, while the high-altitude balloons in Loon move … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, New technology
Tagged airship, Stratospheric airship, surveillance blimp, Thales, Thales-Alenia, unmanned airship
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March 1936: First flight of the Hindenburg
Source: The Engineer – theengineer.co.uk By Stuart Nathan The maiden test flights of the Zeppelin Hindenburg gave no hint of the disaster to come
The new Gooyear Blimp makes its maiden flight.
This morning, March 17, 2014, a few minutes before 10:00 AM (EDT), the new Goodyear Blimp took to the air for the first time.
Posted in Airships, Blimps, News
Tagged airship, Akron, blimp, Blimp NT, goodyear, Maiden flight, Wingfoot Lake, zeppelin
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