Airship Times

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The founder of Worldwide Aeros in Montebello has been fascinated by airships since his childhood in Ukraine. His firm has sold more than 35 different platforms flown on four continents. The gig: Igor Pasternak, 45, is the founder and chief executive of Worldwide Aeros Corp., a Montebello-based developer and maker of blimps used for surveillance, advertising and transport.  

Okay, Mr. Saboteur. You're not going to listen to reason, are you? We asked nicely -- so very nicely -- that you stop blowing up those beautiful, elegant and endangered dirigibles. However, the latest batch of screenshots from your self-titled game have revealed that you haven't heeded our advice, and continue to detonate airships at the drop of your dusty, brown flat cap. That's how you want to do this, huh? Well, you can expect our harshly...  

Sometimes Sean "The Saboteur" Devlin needs to mix things up. Sure, it's fun to subtly plant explosives on a tower, but where's the instant gratification? No, for that, he'll need to snag that rocket launcher and take down a blimp or ambush a dock full of Nazis. Inspired by the real-life exploits of Special Oper...  

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectacular ships won’t just be at sea during San Francisco Fleet Week presented by CVS/pharmacy, one will be soaring in the air. The only Zeppelin in the United States, Airship Ventures’ Eureka, makes her Fleet Week debut this Friday performing with aviation’s elite above San Francisco Bay. The 246 foot-long airship will be the largest performer in this year’s Fleet Week Air Show, as well as the only...  

The permanent occupation of Afghanistan to protect the oil pipeline http://consortiumnews.com/2009/102409b.html is bringing about strange aspects of technology. From the page: "Sometimes it feels like I'm already living in the future. The U.S Army's Space and Missile Defense command plans to have an unmanned spy-ship capable of loitering at 20,000-feet (for up to three weeks) ready to deploy by mid-2011. Dubbed the Long Endurance Multi...  

As we've mentioned, 19-year-old Santa Rosa multi-instrumentalist Ryan Schmale approaches That Ghost's fuzzy, spacious pop in a way that reminds us more of vintage garage rockers and Robert Pollard than he does his lo-fi peers. See, for instance, "Shouldn't Leave The Estate," a song from the forthcoming Get It And Get Out EP (11/17, twosyllable) that premiered in this week's Drop. Schmale told us about the isolation and agoraphobia that...  

Forty years ago today, Led Zeppelin released Led Zeppelin II just nine months after unleashing their historic debut. Produced by guitarist Jimmy Page, II laid the groundwork for heavy metal with its classic “Whole Lotta Love” and firmly established Zeppelin as one of the loudest and greatest bands in rock at the time. II also [...]  

Lockheed P-791. A blimp, not really. Can spend up to 3 weeks at an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,100 m) with a 2,500 pound (1,134 kg) payload of surveilance equipment by the middle of 2011. The LEMV is a hybrid airship - it's heavier than air, 80% of its lift coming from buoyancy and 20% from aerodynamics. Propulsion comes from six thrusters - three per side - powered by individual turbo-diesels for take-off and climb, and electrically from a...  

I hope you enjoy the video as much as we enjoyed making it. Read more about the youth competition in IFTF's press release announcing Digital Open winners. And you can visit team Funky Shiitake Mushrooms online, here. Previously: ...  

"Anti-government" is as anti-government does. Mark Pitcavage, resident gasbag at ADL.I first introduced Mark Pitcavage, ADL's attack blimp, in this post back in March. Back in the 90s, I crossed electronic swords often with this puke, who used to get paid by the FBI for all the names of militia folk he could glean by trolling the Internet. Back then, this was his logo:Now the attack blimp has delivered another pre-emptive prevarication...  

Airships may be the key component in a new robotic system for exploring the celestial bodies most likely to harbor life like Mars and Jupiter’s moon, Titan. digg_url ="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/robotarmada/"; The dirigibles would provide regional observations and autonomous command for ground-based vehicles, while maintaining contact with orbiters. It’d be a new role for airships, which were the wonder of [...]  

killbox commented on Kitson Harvey's blog post 'Morning Fix: Dirigible'Robert S, once again, blimps are not dirigibles they are blimps(non rigid), and the above mentioned altitude 9185ft is from the Specifications on the ZeppelinNT Factory specifications. In Response to this thread I contacted Airship Ventures(opera...  

There is a move afoot among Democrats to soften us up for some form of value-added tax (AKA: the VAT) like many countries have in Europe. Both the White House and the Democratic leadership in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]  

'Walrus' P-791 re-roled as aerial Afghan spyship The US military will deploy an "optionally manned" 250-foot surveillance airship to Afghanistan by the middle of 2011, according to reports. The dirigible spy-ship will be able to lurk high above Afghan battlefields for up to three weeks at a time, relaying information to ground commanders.…The power of collaboration within unified communications