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.
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