 | Caile-girl is a single woman from Home of Sassy Southern Belles, Georgia, USA.
Hi! I'm an INFJ and a compulsive sandwich squasher. I seldom answer mail due to time constraints. "Online" does not mean available (sometimes I hide in the sofa cushions). Other than the fact that I'm socially avoidant, I can be a fun person! Really!
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HAVING A HARD TIME WITH MY INTERNET SERVICE RIGHT NOW. Will be online next week. Argh! |
 - Spy Blimps and Heavy Lifters
 Oct 1, 2007 3:23pm  (1 review) science, technology, aviation, blimps, blimps-r-cool http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/s... Spy Blimps! The Latest Generation of Phallic Flying Dirigibles!
From the page: Techsphere is one of a dozen or so companies that hope to find new applications for a technology that's been around since the late 1700s, when the Montgolfier brothers in France made the first flights with lighter-than-air craft. Some companies are trying to develop an airship that can hover in the stratosphere for months at a time to spy on terrorist camps or spot truckloads of insurgents or cruise missiles in flight. Others are working on craft that are not quite lighter than air: They would combine the lift of helium with the control capability of heavier-than-air vehicles like airplanes. In the Arctic, where global warming is rendering ice roads unusable, the new vehicles would float drill equipment over the soggiest terrain. All these scenarios envision important new missions for aviation's historic underachievers.
(There was also a mention of "balls in the air" but I am uncertain how that applies to airships. It appealed to my puerile nature, though.)
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