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Tillamook Blimp Hangar Faces Uncertain Future

Posted on May 7, 2013 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: KTVZ.com and Oregonlive.com The Tillamook Air Museum and its fleet of historic aircraft is leaving the coast for the High Desert — Madras Airport, to be precise.

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Ice Roads, Airships Could Work Together

Posted on April 23, 2013 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: Winnipeg Free Press By: Barry Prentice A proposal to build an ice road from Churchill to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, has been presented with the endorsement of both federal and provincial politicians.

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You Are Now Free To Move About the Galaxy: Airline Contest Sends You To Space

Posted on April 17, 2013 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: fastcocreate.com By: Joe Berkowitz KLM Royal Dutch Airlines launched a guessing game whose winner gets to tag along on the first commercial trip to space in 2014. Be the envy of everyone on Earth.

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Two Workshops on the Future of Airships to be Held This Month

Posted on April 17, 2013 by LighterThanAirSociety

The conferences will be held in Friedrichshafen, Germany on April 26 and at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

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The PEGASOS Zeppelin Campaign in 2013 has started

Posted on April 12, 2013 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: eu-pegasos.blogspot.com 8 April 2013- From mid-April, the Zeppelin NT will once again be on a mission for climate research – this time travelling as far as Finland. Scientists are starting the second part of their measurement campaign within the … Continue reading →

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