LEMV has been Deflated

InsideDefense.com reported back in June that LEMV has been deflated and is planed to be sold as scrap. The plan for HAV to buy the ship back apparently fell through.

"...when the Army in April offered to sell the hybrid airship back to HAV for $44 million -- a price calculated from federal acquisition regulations requiring renumeration for material costs -- the sum was more than the company could immediately muster, HAV business development director Hardy Giesler told InsideDefense.com.

     HAV countered by proposing a down payment of more than $10 million, followed by installment payments. That offer, however, was deemed [sic] "high risk" and "unacceptable to the government," according to John Cummings, spokesman for Army Space and Missile Defense Command, which managed the LEMV acquisition effort."

I'm surprised I missed this article, obviously not good news, especially for HAV, and when we consider that $400,000 worth of helium was probably just dumped into the atmosphere, it just keeps getting worse.

This is however not the end of airships, or a tragic end to the 2ed coming Airship Revolution. The government is still interested in Hybrid Airships for cargo and is making noises that they plan to acquire a few 66 Ton carrying Aeroscrafts for logistics. This is however probably the end of the Government's attempts to build Hybrid Airship ISR platforms, which is probably for the best.

Aero's "Might" Get More Money From Congrees.

In the latest NDAA, both congresses agreed in their bills to "[direct] U.S. Transportation Command and the Air Force Mobility Command to monitor progress in this area and report to the congressional defense committees no later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act on the status of developments in the commercial sector regarding hybrid airships that could be used to provide the capability identified by General Fraser, and to what extent the DOD could benefit from them."

Nobody is denying that the Aeroscraft was a success, and nobody in congress is willing to make a fuse about a technology that clearly represents the future of green aviation, This is good because it shows that any political pressure to stop airship developments, if there ever was any, has all but dried up.

No, now the only problem is that congress is in debt up to their eyeballs. The underlying cause being that the country has been robbed by offshore mega banks. Too bad we didn't spend any of that 26 Trillion the Fed gave to bailout the criminal banking mafia on airships, or jobs, or infrastructure, because now it looks like all congress can do is say, airships are a good idea, but we don't have any money to invest in the effort.

Hopefully the commercial sector will pick up where congress has left off, as congress is basically criminally negligent these days. It's almost surprising they even got this much right.

So we will see if there will be any money going to building airships for cargo transport. Fingers crossed.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10948326.htm

Airship Update! (playlist)

I made a playlist of airship related videos on YouTube, I figure it's something nice to play when I walk away from my computer.

3rd Cargo Airships for Northern Operations Workshop kicks off

So the 3ed Annual workshop for Cargo Airships kicks off tomorrow, and it looks like there might be some revaluations about Lockheed's Sky Tug. Last year not much happened other then the usual suspects came together and all agreed airships was a good idea. Lets hope this year with Aeros having completed it's prototype, and Lockheed still working on their own design that we will get some good news out of the workshop this year.

Hers is a link to their website:
http://event.arc.nasa.gov/airships/2013Workshop

Oh where has my Sky Tug gone?

So, a while back, I got banned from X-Plane.Org for being a 9-11Truther, and with it, all my files for the stuff I had worked on are no longer on the Org and nobody can download them.

I had thought of starting my own website, but I realized I don't really wanna deal with the hassle unless I got something that's good to put up. Trying to find a place to host my files I realized today I can upload them to Mega, the new encrypted FTP server from Kim Dot Com and share the files from there.

So here they are, they include Version 0.4 of my Lockheed Martin Sky Tug, the resource files used to build the Sky Tug, and KMRY Monetary (Originally created by Eric McCloud for FSX.) You can download them here:

Edit: I forgot to mention the Sky Tug works with both X-plane Version 9 and 10, KMRY I made for X-plane 10 but it might work in Version 9.

Sky Tug Download.

Sky Tug Resource Files Download.

KMRY Monterey Download.

I have heard that the Sky Tug is sill under construction at Lockheed, maybe we will see it fly by the end of the year?


Edit: The Sky Tug now has it's own website www.skytug.webs.com get the latest version there.