Bruce Dickinson interview by AVweb

AVWeb did an interview with Iron Maiden and Airship Geek Bruce Dickinson. Check it out.

Airship Happenings - Iron Maiden, HAV Funding Goals and more.

A lot has been happening lately in the World OF Airships (TM)... ha, got to it before you Wargaming!


The first big thing on my Radar is Iron Maidens Empire of the Clouds. Which I learned recently is a tribute song written by Bruce Dickenson about the R-101 Airship made by the Brits. The R-101 was pushed by politics rather then good engineering and on it's maiden voyage crashed in France killing 48 or the 51 people on broad.

This included big wigs pushing the Airship program in the UK. Eerily mirroring these events was the USS. Akron Accident that happened a few years latter off the coast of Florida. A lot of the Big Wigs in the U.S. pushing for the Lighter then Air Program died as well in that accident.


In other News, HAV has raised a large some of money as part of their crowd funding campaign. These funds should insure that Airlander 10 will be seen flying for at lest 200 hours over the UK this summer as part of the certification process.

The great thing about Airships is that once you get them flying they promote themselves, and Airlander 10 has the words "Airlander" written across it's sides for that very reason.


Also worth noting are these weird little drone blimps that I can't help but chuckle at the way it picks things up.

There was also an Interview with Mike Kendrick, the man who will be buying Lockheeds Airships in the near future.

Volocopter First Manned Flight Footage

Looks very easy to fly, will this vehicle be the first to bring VTOL to the masses?

Well Written Inverse Article

Check out this article that talks a lot about Airships filling niches other Cargo Carries simply cannot.

Airship Scammers?

I was running through the comment section on the CNBC Article about the deal between Lockheed and this one guy was posting crap that got my attention. Going by the name Campbell, he posted this nonsense:

"the so-called 'hybrid airships" such as "LMH-1" "Airlander" "Aerocat" "Aeroscraft" are no more than novely; and as such, detrimental to the advance of the greater lighter-than-air industry"

Then in another post he posted to a page that I read a good potion of that talked about this mythical "HARBOR REACH" military operation where theses commanders were quoted as saying how great Turtle Airships are, and how they conducted this mission with a few 500 ton hauling airships and where amazed at what they could do.

And that the government should spend 3 billion on only Turtle Airships because they are the ONLY company that can build airships like this... all of which I knew couldn't be true. But it was written in a way that almost had me fooled into thinking, did I miss something?

I finally realized after putting the puzzle together that this webpage that was probably put up by Turtle Airships, was an obvious con-job designed to draw in unwitting investment funds from crowd funding or some other such investment scam.

Their fake webpage, looked just like a webpage I remember a few years back where someone was trying to sell Blender as a closed source application, even though Blender is open source and free.

I don't know, maybe we should feel proud of the fact that our little Airships industry is big enough now to draw the attention of scammers, but I refuse to let anyone get hurt by these con-men.

Turtle Airships is a scam, don't trust those guys. Warn others not to trust them, they are bad news and bad for business.

EDIT: THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE... maybe we should fight scammers every April 1st?