Airship

Britain's first ever commercial airship made a voyage over central London today, capturing in pictures many of its spectacular landmarks.The Star Over London airship, sponsored by Belgian beer maker Stella Artois, will take hour-long flights throughout the summer. Taking off from Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster, London, it will fly over some of London's most famous and historic buildings and landmarks, including Canary Wharf, Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.The 75-metre-long aircraft will take between five and ei ...

A German airship operator is to start Zeppelin sightseeing flights over London's most famous landmarks from next month.After two years of planning, five sightseeing flights of London onboard a Zeppelin airship will take off every day from July 10 and run for six weeks over summer.The flights will take off from east London and climb to 2,000 ft above the Thames. The longest flights will see the airships cast shadows over Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament before returning to its base at Damyns Hall airf ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY and MOFFETT FIELD, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--May 22, 2008 -- Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik and Airship Ventures today announced the successful first flight of the fourth, and latest, Zeppelin NT airship over Friedrichshafen, Germany.Construction of the fourth Zeppelin NT airship having recently been completed, the ship was handed over to the flight test department to begin the testing phase. The hangar doors opened and the airship left the 360 foot long hangar for the first time since the start of airframe assembly in M ...

LAS VEGAS, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--May 19, 2008 -- WENR Corp. (Other OTC:WNRC.PK - News) announced today Airship Surveillance, a Nevada-based high technology airship company, with whom WENR has a letter of intent, formally announced today its first order for a custom built airship.Airship Surveillance (AirSur) has confirmed its first order for an airship. The airship will be designed and built for specific tasks and will carry video equipment as one of its roles. Client information will remain confidential at this time."We are extremely pl ...

LAS VEGAS, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--May 13, 2008 -- WENR Corp. (Other OTC:WNRC.PK - News) announced today Airship Surveillance, a Nevada-based high technology airship company, with whom WENR has a letter of intent, began training the first group of pilots to support upcoming operations.Sandy Mangold, Vice President of Airship Surveillance, stated, "We are fortunate to have on our team both world class UAV pilots and airship pilots with considerable experience, by combining these two skill sets Airship Surveillance will offer a unique set of ...

Airship Ventures Inc., which was formed to bring Zeppelin NT airship operations to the U.S., said Thursday it closed a first round of financing with $8 million.Airship Ventures did not disclose details of the investment.The company moved its operations to Moffett Field in a partnership with NASA that will include part use of historic Hangar 2, built in 1942 to house Navy blimps.The company was founded in 2007 and plans to offer "flightseeing" tours, media and science mission operations.The Zeppelin NT07 airship, carrying up to 12 pass ...

LAS VEGAS, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--May 5, 2008 -- Airship Surveillance (AirSur), a Nevada-based high technology aerospace company, which also has a letter of intent to be acquired by WENR Corp. (Other OTC:WNRC.PK - News), stated today that it has received its first signed contract with a government contractor."We are pleased to announce the award of a systems engineering contract with a Las Vegas-based company, which has extensive contacts in defense, energy, and academic communities," stated Sandy Mangold of AirSur. "Airship Surveillance ...

LAS VEGAS, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 28, 2008 -- Airship Surveillance, Inc. is pleased to announce that it had signed a letter of intent to be acquired by WENR Corp. (Other OTC:WNRC.PK - News).Paul Adams, President of Airship Surveillance, Inc., stated, "This is a significant and extremely positive development for both Airship Surveillance and, we believe, WENR Corp. Our collaboration to date has been extremely productive and this latest development will build on that success to the great benefit of the shareholders of WENR."He continued ...

Project shifts government departments, but jobs, work stay with Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin's High-Altitude Airship has yet to fly.But it just moved.The Akron-based airship program has been transferred from the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency to the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, according to the company and public officials. The change keeps the program in development and will keep jobs in Akron, according to Lockheed Martin, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Niles, and Summit County Executive Russ Pry.Lockheed Marti ...

Special Report: Airship Surveillance, a WENR Corp. (Other OTC:WNRC.PK - News) strategic marketing partner, continues to make significant progress in the test flight program of its R&D1 unmanned airship. The latest series of tests focused on the airship's flight handling characteristics. Using a combination of ducted fans coupled with improved aerodynamic surfaces, R&D1 demonstrated precise handling in a crosswind environment. These very positive results have enabled the Company to make significant progress in its goal to deliver the f ...

Even the sky cannot escape the penetration of the Thai advertising industry. Live Media Group Co has joined with Thai Sky Media to be the first to fill this gap by launching airship advertising in Thailand. Local billboard ad operator Live Media Group is the media representative for the local airship operator Thai Sky Media.Nichakorn Anmahapong, Live Media Group's managing director, said Thai Sky Media imported three airships from the US last month. Two are 1.60-metre-long indoor airships and the other seven-metre model is for outdoor ...

LAKEHURST, N.J. - Seventy-five years ago, 75 men lost their lives in an airship crash off the New Jersey coast.The naval airship USS Akron was lost at sea in a storm on the morning of April 4, 1933. Only three of the 76 men on board survived.A small training blimp sent out to find the Akron also crashed, killing two more men.The Navy Lakehurst Historical Society expects about 150 invited guests at a Saturday commemoration. The U.S. Navy base at Lakehurst was a center of airship activity in the 1920s and 1930s -- and was the si ...

Seventy-five years later, the cobbled floor and 10-story gloom of Hangar 1 is much as it was on the day 76 men boarded the USS Akron, before the 785-foot airship floated out of its shelter and into the darkening sky for a routine night training mission.Only the ship commander and two crewmen came back from the world's worst airship disaster. Today the world better remembers the filmed image of a horrific hydrogen fire that consumed the German airship Hindenburg at Lakehurst four years later. But arguably the era of rigid-frame airship ...

WENR Corp. announced today Airship Surveillance, a Nevada-based high technology airship company and a strategic marketing partner of WENR, has been requested to supply components of its L2 airship to a customer for the compatibility development with their sensor equipment. The request will be fulfilled in early April. Final completion of the L2 airship is anticipated to occur during the second quarter of this year.Airship Surveillance has begun assembly of the L2 payload support section which, when completed, will be shipped to an ins ...

WENR Corp. announced today Airship Surveillance, a Nevada-based high technology airship company, has received an LOI from Auxilia, a lead systems integrator in the commercialization of unmanned systems (UMS) technologies."We are pleased to formally announce our commitment, interest, and intent on a partnership with Airship Surveillance (AirSur) and WENR," stated Donald Devito of Auxilia. Recently, Auxilia has been engaged with Federal and State Agencies on UMS Applications focused on counter-narco-terrorism (CNT) applications for airb ...

WENR Corp. announced today Airship Surveillance, a Nevada-based high technology airship company, will immediately begin construction of its L2 airship, based on the successes of its R&D1 concept airship.The L2 will be is the Company's first aircraft to be produced and will be manufactured at the Company's southern Nevada facility. The L2 is designed specifically for military and government customers. It is designed to have increased performance, long flight duration, and low operating costs. The facility will employ up to 10 employees ...

Inventor Thomas Benton Slate was trying to lease space on the old Ross Field in Arcadia for building a new type of airship, reported the Star-News on March 17, 1926.Ross Field was the site of the former "Balloon School" and remained in War Department hands.The Star-News opined that this could be the start of a major airship building industry and deplored the delay caused by government red tape.The Slate airship was to be fabricated from sheet metal, with the lifting gas filling the entire interior. Propulsion was by a unique fan in th ...

Airship Surveillance, a strategic partner of WENR Corp., is pleased to announce the success of the launching of the R&D 1 Airship. On March 11th the Company with a crew of five, prepared the R&D Airship, preformed detailed checks on the guidance system and released the airship into the air at approximately 6:00 AM.The airship performed better than planned. The airship was kept on a tether to stay within regulations regarding the testing of this type of unmanned vehicle. The pilot of the unmanned airship preformed the following test ma ...

Airship Surveillance, a strategic partner of WENR Corp., is pleased to announced the appointment a new member to the Company's Board of Directors. Dan Green, the CEO of WENR Corp. has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Airship Surveillance."I am excited about the prospects that Airship is developing," said Dan Green. "This is an important step for the shareholders of WENR," Mr. Green further stated.Mr. Green will be attending the maiden launch of the R&D Airship scheduled for March 11th. He will be reporting to the board of d ...

Airship Surveillance, a strategic partner of WENR Corp. (Other OTC:WNRC.PK - News), has set March 11, 2008, as the target date for the first flight of its "R&D-1" airship following a Flight Readiness Review. The target flight date provides sufficient time to complete all remaining work and allows for two contingency test days.The flight test procedure calls for the airship to initially be flown using conventional controls to create a performance baseline. Testing of the company's new flight control system will follow this initial test ...

Blimp adventure a thrill for chronically ill childrenWrapped in his father's arms, 3-year-old Cole Kaspar got off the AVICTA Complete Cotton Blimp on Saturday and talked about the ride."I see the racetrack. I see The Pyramid. I see the train," he said before finally turning to wave, "Goodbye, blimp." Diagnosed with neuroblastoma and now in remission, Cole, along with his family, has had a tough year. In the last 12 months he's had a bone marrow transplant, 11 rounds of chemotherapy and a nine-hour surgery. He's getting better, but sti ...

WENR Corp., announced today Airship Surveillance, a Nevada-based, high technology airship company, has successfully completed ground testing of its proprietary airship control system. The system has been designed to maximize the maneuverability of the Company's line of unmanned airships during the critical takeoff and landing phases of flight and works by vectoring thrust from the airships primary propulsion engine, which is combined with the use of vernier thrusters."Historically, traditional airships experience control difficulties ...

By Alexandra WoodIt was built to mirror the lines of an airship - and caused a huge stir when it first trundled out on the road with its teardrop shape and rear engine.Thanks to a £3,250 Lottery grant a very unusual car will be visiting Howden as part of a heritage weekend.The only complete surviving example of the unique Crossley Streamline is coming to the town on Saturday, September 8.The Lottery is funding the transport of the car from Beaulieu, in Hampshire, because the prototype Burney Streamline car, with its revolutionary ...

The unveiling of a commemorative plaque took place at Willingdon Library on Friday.The plaque commemorates the Polegate Airship Station which stood on 142 acres of the parish of Willingdon from July 1915 to April 1919.The chairman of Willingdon and Jevington Parish Council, Councillor John Prichett, and Eastbourne MP Nigel Waterson were among the guests who attended the ceremony. ...

California company's zeppelin airship to take passengers next summerBy Paula SchleisThe only bad thing about living in a city where Goodyear blimp sightings are commonplace is that little twinge of jealousy from watching people float around up there.Blimp rides are forever out of reach for most people, reserved for Goodyear customers, clients, special guests and lucky charity raffle winners.So will you settle for a ride in a zeppelin?A 246-foot airship -- more than 50 feet longer than the largest blimp -- is being built for a Californ ...

BY KIRK MOORETwo hundred feet over his head, 17-year-old Robert Buchanan watched a big 16-cylinder Mercedes Benz diesel shudder and cough, as the crew of the German airship Hindenburg gunned the engines in preparation for landing.The cloud of sparks and soot he saw - and the terrifying eruption of flame seconds later - remain part of an enduring mystery 70 years later, elements of a disaster that still affects 21st-century debates over civilization's energy needs."I always had a gut feeling that (the engine revving up) had something t ...

By CHRIS NEWMARKERLAKEHURST, N.J. - At 87, Robert Buchanan says he sometimes has trouble remembering what he did 10 minutes ago.But he can recall in vivid detail the day 70 years ago when he watched the German zeppelin Hindenburg erupt into a fireball. A burst of flames roared across the surface of the huge German airship only 30 or so metres above him and Buchanan remembers his hair being singed as he ran for his life."It was a piff-puff, just like someone would leave the gas on and not get the flame to it," said Buchanan, one of the ...

The Outback Steakhouse Bloomin? Onion I Airship will be flying overhead for the 2007 BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs golf tournament that will be played May 17-20.The tournament will be played at The Cliffs Valley, The Cliffs at Walnut Cove and The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards courses.The Bloomin? Onion I can hold three passengers and one pilot, and cruise at 35 MPH, 1,000-1,500 ft. above the ground. It is 130-ft. long, 45-ft. tall, and weighs approximately 4,400 lbs. It is lifted by nonflammable helium gas and is powered by two turboc ...

A group of European scientists will be travelling aboard a 55-metre airship as they try to measure the thickness of the Arctic Ocean's ice next summer.The airship, which was made for the project, is scheduled to leave Norway in early March 2008 and arrive in Tuktoyuktuk, N.W.T., or Barrow, Alaska, by late April.Researchers aboard the aircraft will gather data to build a continuous profile of the Arctic Ocean's ice thickness - something they say hasn't been done before.Scientists have said climate change has made the total area of the ...

By Christian OliverCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela launched a Zeppelin on Thursday to patrol Caracas, seeking to fight crime in one of Latin America's most dangerous cities but also raising fears that President Hugo Chavez could be turning into Big Brother.Around the hot-dog stalls of the run-down suburb where the airship took its first flight, most people felt the unmanned eye-in-the-sky could help counter routine hold-ups, shootings and carjackings."It is a necessity," said street vendor Pedro Marin when asked about the 15-meter heli ...

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Washington: Scientists will attempt to cross the North Pole by zeppelin as part of a study aimed at creating a continual profile of ice thickness in the Arctic, extending from the Canadian coast across the North Pole to Siberia.The airship will be equipped with an electromagnetic sensor being developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, one of the 15 research centres within the Helmholtz Association, Germany.The project, the brainchild of French physician Jean-Louis Etienne, is being financed by the French ...

In 2008, scientists will, for the very first time, create a continual profile of ice thickness in the Artic, extending from the Canadian coast across the North Pole to Siberia. At the core of the project lies the crossing of the North Pole by zeppelin. The airship will be equipped with an electromagnetic sensor developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, one of the 15 research centres within the Helmholtz Association. The sensational project of French physician Jean-Louis Etienne is financed by the French ...

Japanese guitarist and visitor feels at home in a Torrance store where Led Zeppelin and AC/DC are big hits.By Muhammed El-HasanYuki Fukawa rocks!He has a sweet gig as a salesman at No Name Rock Tees, a Torrance store that sells cool rock 'n' roll T-shirts.Fukawa, 25, has an awesome story. He played far-out guitar riffs in a rock band in his home country of Japan.After this hipster earned a degree in international relations from a Japanese university, he came to the South Bay to work.This hard rocker and Hawthorne resident has been at ...

By Kirk BrownBefore shipping out on a one-year tour of duty in Iraq, U.S. Navy Seabee Angel Seaz wanted to arrange a romantic outing with his fiancée, Karen Alvarez. So Seaz contacted a local Saturn dealer and finagled a ride for the couple on the company's blimp."She loved it," says a smiling Seaz after exiting the candy-apple-red airship at the conclusion of their Sunday morning flight over Orlando.Who wouldn't? Everybody loves blimps. And the fact that the world's largest and most successful blimp company is right here in Orla ...

Bremerhaven, Germany - German scientists are to fly an airship from Norway across the North Pole to Canada to carry out the first-ever all-the-way-across survey of the thickness of the ice covering the Arctic Sea. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) polar research institute in Bremerhaven, Germany said the Pole Airship expedition would start in April next year, but preliminary soundings with the aid of a helicopter would begin in the Arctic this month.The Zeppelin craft will carry a detector that can tell from the air how thick the ic ...

Film studio plan for rotting airship shedDeveloper hatches idea as part of application for 425 homes.Tinseltown could move in again at Shortstown with the hatching of plans to convert the rotting Number One airship shed into a film studio. How the Frontier Estates development could take shape.The neighbouring Number Two Shed has already been leased by Warner Bros, who built the Gotham City set for Batman Begins within its massive walls and late last year were in there again to film scenes for upcoming movie Fred Claus.Now Frontier Es ...

DENVER Spring 2007 arrives in Colorado at 6:07 p.m. Tuesday and it appears this spring could bring the end of the drought for much of Colorado.The forecast calls for normal precipitation over the course of the spring months of April, May and June. That, combined with the wet winter, means the drought could ease across most of the state.There could still be drought problems in the Four Corners area and the northwest corner of the Colorado.The long-term forecast also calls for temperatures above average for most of spring. Typically the ...

GENEVA (AFP) - A solar-powered airship that replaces communications satellites is one of a series of high tech projects that can help bridge the "digital divide," the organisers of an Information Technology fund for poor countries said Tuesday.The Digital Solidarity Fund was launched by African leaders and European public authorities at a UN summit two years ago to bring modern communications to an estimated 80 percent of the world population in por countries that are unconnected.The Fund said at a board meeting that a dozen community ...

Sanswire Networks LLC, subsidiary of GlobeTel Communications Corp. (Other OTC:GTEM.PK - News), previously announced the successful completion of the float test of the Sanswire 2A Technology Demonstrator Stratellite(tm) on March 4. In conjunction with this test, representatives of Raytheon Company presented a range of additional security solutions involving synthetic aperture radars (SAR), infrared (IR) cameras, and secure communications.Peter Khoury, Chief Executive Officer of GlobeTel Communications, stated, ``The versatility and fun ...