Gage Road chnaged name to Aeros way

There has been some big news in the world of Airships. Aeros has announced it plans to build a fleet of 24 airships in the 66 to 250 ton range, and today they are currently at the Air Cargo Europe Convention looking for customers. Aeros isn't planning to sell their airships yet, as the support networks needed to keep these airships running is somewhat complex. But they will be leasing these 24 airships to clients, with Aeros supplying the crew and maintenance crews needed to keep these boats afloat.

In other news the Monticello City Council has voted to rename Gage Road to Aeros Way, which is a nice symbolic jest. Maybe 20 years from now Aeros Way will be a hot spot for Airship culture and innovation.

It's great to see that the Aeroscraft is really taking off as a future airship platform, they are clearly the best competitor. HAV and Lockheed are lacking behind now and Aeros is probably on a crash course with destiny at this point. HAV might pull itself back together and get back into the race, but I wonder if Lockheed is even building the Sky Tug anymore, at this point? It's hard to say with Lockheed because everything they do is super-secret and they could have unofficially canceled the Hybrid Airship program when they realized they couldn't get any customers and Aeros was far ahead of them, but last news I head was that the Sky Tug is still under construction. So we will see.

I think it would be a mistake for any of these airship companies to pull out of the race at this point, even Lockheed. As the problem with lake of customers has very little to do with the actual market that exists and needs this technology. The lack of customers is because the vast majority of people don't know a lot about airships, and as a result everything they ever heard about airships is usually bad. Hindenburg, Macon, Akron, etc. It's all bad, and most people don't understand the complexities that contributed to why these airships went down.

When I talk to people about airships, very few are aware that most airships don't have VTOL capabilities, and hardly anyone knows about the complex nature of buoyancy management. They've never even heard the term pressure altitude, and they have no idea what types of these issues are solved with the Hybrid Airship design.

So the customer base, most of which exist in the 3ed world, still believe that airships are inherently dangerous, and are less willing to invest because of their belief these new airships will ultimately end in failure. They would rather stick with helicopters or airplanes even though these new airships are arguably more safe. As a result the real market to sell airships to is huge!

Once people realize how much better these new airships are over the airships of yesteryear, they will see the potential and there will be an absolutely gigantic market that will open up. Bigger I believe then the current aviation market, as once people realize these new airships are safer then airplanes people who are afraid to fly will want to fly in airships. Airships will become the new stranded in luxury air travel and they will explode in popularity like someone had just invented the first ever sea going boat.

Companies like HAV, Lockheed, Solarship, and Aeros all stand to benefit from this coming airship revolution and their is more then enough market to be shared between all of them. It's just going to be initially hard to get there, but well worth it. But it's a catch 22, one of these companies needs to prove airships work to build investor confidence in order to get the investor capitol to build the airships. That's really the hardest part and it's why airships haven't gotten off the ground in that past.

Lockheed defiantly has the sex appeal factor when it comes to their Skytug and I believe that would give them an initial boost, but they need to be willing to risk it big and build the thing to prove it works in order to get their market to open it's eyes. That's what Aeros has done and now they are naming a street after them!

So we shall see.

I just wanna add that it's been hard to keep up with airships as there has been so much happening the conspiracy world it's been overwhelming. I mean just check out what's going on in free energy. Not to mention the IRS and the Boston Bombing. It's been really hard to focus on just airships.

"Other disposal options for the LEMV also exist" -U.S. army Space and Missile Defense

According to The Montreal Gazette their is still a possibility that LEMV will be sold back to HAV for use in Canada's north as a cargo demonstration platform.

"We can probably carry four or five tons." Hardy Giesler, HAV's business development director, said yesterday in a telephone interview with Gazette.

This is good news,  I had assumed that at this point LEMV was probably already deflated and put into storage. But perhaps that's not the case.

Releasing that much helium into the atmosphere is grossly wasteful in my opinion, and to not use LEMV for something else after it has already been constructed just shows that our military no longer has the creative intelligence that it once did. It's like saying back in the stone age "Well we built the worlds first ship, but we don't know what to use it for, so we are just going to take it apart and throw it away."

I mean, I'm sure anyone of my readers could think of a more productive use for LEMV then dismantling and dumping. What happened to the time when the US government was pioneering the concept of an airship-aircraft carrier? No one else could do it, not even the Germans. Yet, we did it, and we didn't care that it was dangerous.

It seems the U.S. Government is in sorry shape these days, it has more or less broken it's contract with the people and no longer stands for the ideals upon which it was founded.  In all real measure we are teetering on the brink of collapse. The fact that HAV, the manufacture, had to be the one to point out that they could use LEMV for cargo operations is a testament that our government is no longer thinking long term about anything, it's now starting to just react to it's economic disposition with nee-jerk budget saving measures.

Proof to that, is when FAA cuts hit and flights were delayed for 3 hours, congress passed a bill fully funding the FAA. Of course the problem with that is that they now need to take away more funds from other programs, which in turn means it's only a matter of time before another budget crisis hits, or multiple budget crisis hit at the same time, and congress reacts with the same nee-jerk reaction.

There is only a few places this kinda behavior can take us, all of which are bad. What's most likely to happen here is that we are just simply going to default on our debt, which might cause hyper-inflation and total economic collapse but it might not as well. Barring that, the other most likely possibility I see is that congress is going to keep on funding programs that they consider "necessitates" by cutting all social services, which will lead to an armed revolution by the lower class.

I'm interested to see how this situation turns out for the FAA, which Senator Jey Rockefeller claim's has "no room" for budget cuts. What's going to happen at the end of the year when the FAAs budget concerns pop back up again? For that matter, what is going to become of air traffic control in a future without government? I think what's really going on here is that the middle and upper classes might actually think about revolting if they are forced to deal with any more flight delays at the hands of government, so congress passed a bill funding the FAA to try and keep a revolt by the upper class at bay.

So consider this, dose the FAA really make us safer? What would the world be like without any regulation over human powered flight? Would it really be so much more dangerous? Or is it more dangerous to have blind faith in a dying institution that dose everything in the name of our safety and yet has no future?

I see a world after the government completely collapses where flying becomes the ultimate expression of libertarian adventurism. A world where you no longer need to fallow any government regulation and pay bureaucrats to certify you and your airplane to be able to fly. Instead flying becomes anarchistic and IFR standards are more or less eradicated.

If we lived in that kind of world already, the Aeroscraft wouldn't be sitting in some hanger in southern California waiting for the FAA to say it's ok to fly, and neither would LEMV. Maybe you believe the FAA makes us safer, but how can you be sure that people would not keep the same level of safety if there was no regulations at all? I think a common misconception is that if there was no law to make sure that airplanes are flight worthy, everyone would forgo flight inspections. Similarly some people believe that if it was not a crime to smoke marijuana that everyone would suddenly smoke weed. This logic a been proven to be false, and I think this applies to the FAA as well.

Regardless of what you think, the FAA needs to become more efficient and less restrictive, or in the very near future their wont be an FAA anymore, or a US Government for that matter.

Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Fund Looking to Finance Network of Airship Services

This article just makes my head hurt.

Apparently, a sovereign wealth found of the middle eastern type, is looking at starting the first network of airship services aimed at transporting passengers around the UK.

They sound rather ambitious, claiming that they will have their first services ready by the end of the year. With a 100 passenger airship making all day trips between South Wales and London at speeds of 150 Miles per hour.

Yeah, uhm, good luck with that.

Not to sound pessimistic, this idea I admit is a really good one, and the market is most defiantly there. The UK is in dire need of some new type of transportation system, and Airships are perfect for their situation. Yet, I don't see any real possibility of this happening in 9 months. The Airship they are talking about using doesn't even exist yet, which means that no matter how much money you have it is going to take at lest 12 mouths to build this airship, and then their will be all the regulatory issues with certification, and the regulatory roadblocks that will inevitably show up because they are trying to do this in the UK.

It's far more likely that, if they are legitimate, they will be up and running by as early as 2015-2017, rather then by the end of this year.

I have a lot of questions, not lest of which is who is this middle eastern sovereign wealth fund and how much money are they going to invest? The way they are talking this must be one of those billionaire oil sheiks looking to create his own airship empire. Which makes sense as even if everything goes belly up with this UK transportation deal, they can just re-purpose their airships for oil work on their oil fields.

Usually I'm not a huge fan of what the super rich wast their money on, but in this case, I'm obviously biased. If they are investing more then a billion dollars then I do believe they will be successful with at lest launching their service. But if they are planing to build an airship empire, they would really need to be investing about 30 billion to get a small fleet of passenger airships.

The return on investment will be at lest 10 years down the road on a project like this, so whoever is doing this, they must be doing it because they really love Airships, to be willing to spend so much to get so little in return. In 40 years the return on investment will be rather high, but most investors are not willing to wait around that long. So someone is looking to put a lot of their life into this, and whoever they are they are gonna need a lot of money to do it, and they just might have that money, but we don't know.

My other big question is weather or not these will be hybrid airships from HAV. It's logical to assume that they will be hybrid airships as that makes the most logical sense, but with big money, it's never safe to assume anything. They could be considering using regular LTAs which would mean a lot less cargo and a lot more trouble on the ground. Hybrids just make sense for transportation of cargo and people from point to point trips, LTAs are better for surveillance and staying still for a long time.

Whatever the case is, I sure hope this doesn't turn out to be some type of inverter scam as that's the last thing the Airship business needs right now. But, if this is the real deal, then it looks like the middle east will be the first to capitalize on revolution in airships. This will probably lead to an entire new industries developing as airlines will dump their routs of 500 miles or less in favor of airships that will be much more economical for short trips with frequent stops.

I feel like this is a good thing.

Solarship to Conquer Canada's North, 2.2M Funded!

I missed this 5 days ago, but I found out about it on Solarship's facebook page.

It seems Solarship has gotten 2.2 million in funding to develop Canada's North. This is excellent news, as Solarship takes the concept of Hybrid to a whole new level compared to other Hybrid Airships that all run on some type of fuel, usually diesel. This sets the stage for Solarship to have a very prominent presence in the hybrid airship market in the future. Not only that, but with technological development in the next 20 years, Solarship has the potential to be a sort of a free energy technology.

The largest Solarship on their website, called a Nanuq, has a Max range of "unlimited" when powered by only solar power with 12 tons of cargo. You can in theory take 12 tons of cargo anywhere in the world without needing to land, ever, and all you need to pay for is maintenance costs and supplies.

That has very world changing implications. Solarship's could become the worlds first practical free energy transportation solution. Even the smallest Solarships can travel 310 miles without any fuel, per day, and with fuel can go 1500 miles for nice global reach. That is if we go by hopping from place to place and land to camp for the night, traveling only by day. But in time technology will make it so even the little solarships have unlimited range, and the bigger airships can take more cargo without fuel.

This will cause northern economies to boom in the next 20 years, places like Anchorage Alaska will become a hot spots for Airship spotting and Airship culture, I predict. Because the economy will be so supercharged by Airships, that the Airships will become something of popular cultural phenomenon up their in the north.

Which will create a whole new generation of Northern Airship People.

Which makes me wonder if I already know what they'll look like?

Investors unwilling to bet on airships?

It's clear that any airship project currently has a huge upfront cost for production. This and the fact no airship company has built a production prototype for a cargo airship is what is currently holding investors at bay. Hybrid Air Vehicles is currently looking to secure funding for it's Airlander 50 production prototype, while the Canadian government is kicking it's heels as to what to do about setting up cargo airships for Canada's North.

The current feeling is that because no one is willing to invest in airship development, the government should wait before investing itself. This doesn't take into consideration the globule down turn thanks to the 2008 banker bailouts that was shown to accomplish nothing for GDP growth, and it also doesn't take into consideration the fact that there has never been a production ready hybrid-airship in the history of the world, so of course initial investment costs are high and investors are weary. They are not willing to risk investment money because they don't have that much money to invest or the time to wait around.

We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars, which is something very few people have handy in the United States in 2013. If it was the 80s or 90s, there might be billions of dollars of available capitol willing to invest in hybrid-airships, unfortunately thanks to De-industrialization, we no longer have these types of investors willing take these types of risks, instead investors are buying more proven air platforms as they present less risk and are built on production lines, so they have a much lower initial investment cost.

Helicopter sales are up some 21% in 2012, which clearly shows the market for VTOL capable air platforms is in high demand. The only reason they are going for Helicopters over hybrid airships here has little to do with the capabilities and more to do with the cheap price of helicopters compared to hybrids.  Helicopters might also be able to do air crane jobs in tighter spaces, but hybrid airships are far safer and could probably do 99% of those air crane jobs that helicopters are taking up on a mass scale. And that's with the added benefit of being 10 times cheaper to operate, and having 10 times the range. On top of this Hybrid Airships are Worlds easier to fly then Helicopters, which should translate into training costs significantly lower then that to train a helicopter pilot. 

So why aren't investors buying hybrids like crazy? Well, it comes down to the fact that currently it will take decades for investors to get back their investments on any hybrid designs. Even if they had them working every day producing $25,000 of net worth per day, it would take 44 years to make $400 million, which is about how much it would cost to build one Hybrid Airship from HAV right now.

Helicopters cost something like 3 to 10 million dollars for a nice one. And if we imagine it fulfilling the same $25,000 per day job, it can pay itself off in less then a year. It will burn more fuel and be more expensive in the long run but it's a lot better to start making a profit in a year, instead of 44 years. Which is what is attracting investors to buy so meany helicopters in the first place.

Obviously the price of hybrid airships needs to come down before investors will be interested, but how much can the price come down? If Hybrid Airships cost 10 million a pop, the Airship revolution would happen tomorrow. But that's unlikely unless these hybrid airships are put on assembly lines, and that can happen only after going into commercial production. Hopefully when these hybrid airship go into production, costs will be cut by as much as 75% which is really what is needed before they can compete with helicopters for world dominance of the markets sling load operations. As then we are looking at 10 year return on investment, with exponentially greater profits then helicopters, after that 10 year decade is up. These are the kind of numbers investors would be willing to wait around for, but until they can expect a reasonable return on investment within the next decade, they will remain uninterested.

LEMV is dead, at lest that's what they want you to think!

I have a bad feeling about this. There is little doubt the nation is in a lot of trouble, and it's understandable that these airship programs are getting axed because there is little political will now to continue these programs with no budget. But if you look at my profile, you'll notice I have another blog called Upreising: End of The Illuminati, where I talk about the shadow government getting exposed in mainstream media. It's time I told you all about Airships the Illuminati and the New World Oder and how they are all tied together.

I have been trying to keep these two blogs unconnected to each other as I don't want to alienate those who don't believe in conspiracy theories when all they are interested in is airships. But unfortunately with another civil war growing in this country and with the timing of these cancellations: Blue Devil and LEMV are both conveniently caned when they are just about finished and ready to be deployed on the American people. I am morally obligated to inform my readers of what I think is going on.

If you don't believe in the Illuminati or the shadow government, let me get you up to speed. In 2009, a Swedish scientific study proved the existence of the Illuminati, they didn't say the Illuminati was real, but the evidence is clear. The finical institutions of the world: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, City Bank, UBS, etc, have indirect control of 80% of the worlds gross domestic product. What's more, when we tie in the facts about the LIBOR scandal the US department of justice has declared that bankers are above the law and cannot be prosecuted even when they launder billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and Al-Qaeda, it's literately mass murder! And the JD claims it's because "they are too systemically important" which if that's even true (It isn't),  it is even more true after the bailouts of 2008 which was supported fully by our congressman in government.

The cracks in the armor are there for anyone to see, if you still don't think the illuminati (Or at lest something like it) dose not exist, you must have your eyes closed at this point. These bankers are all getting exposed left and right as lairs and frauds! And don't even get me started on the Vatican! If you wanna know more about this I suggest you watch Thrive, which basically covers the subject with facts.

So getting back to airships, what's the Illuminati got to do with airships? Well if you watched Thrive you know the Illuminati kill anybody who makes a free energy machine. Why? Because with free energy they are no longer in control of the lives of the population. The root of the Illuminati's power is the purchasing power of the US dollar. Our belief (mind control) that the dollar has value, is what gives it valve. Objectively, money is worthless, it has no real world value save it's use as scrap paper. With free energy, money would need to become something that has real value like batteries or gold.

The same is true for airships, which is why I believe the Illuminati blew up the Hindenburg. Airships are too much of a liberating technology. With an airship, you have a mobile home that can travel anywhere in the world, delivering goods, or be used as a sky crane. They can be used for any job you would use a boat, a helicopter and a airplane to accomplish. They are probably the most liberating technology second only to spaceships. This is why the Illuminati cannot allow people to have uncontrolled access to airships.

So when the Hindenburg blew up, not only did it kill off airships future as a weapon of world peace, but it also killed off the idea of using hydrogen as fuel. Any gasoline engine can run on hydrogen, but engineers won't use it because storing the hydrogen fuel is too dangerous. Why is it too Dangerous you ask? The Hindenburg.

This is like saying we cannot build buildings with steel because building 7 was taken down by "fire damage", the only high-rise building EVER to come down due to fires damage I should mention.

The Illuminati wanna take over the world, they control your life already, and they wanna keep everything pleasurable to themselves. They have insured that the only fuel used is patrol based by controlling a monopoly on energy distribution. And they keep this monopoly going by killing anyone who gets in their way. We don't use Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy because they are the most efficient energy systems. We use these energy source because they are intentionally inefficient. Coal and Nuclear Energy need massive infrastructure and industries to support and use. Natural gas is used primarily because it's there. The last thing the Illuminati wants is something like Cold Fusion or over unity motors, that can produce electricity for almost nothing, and can be deployed anywhere in the world. It completely obliterates their web of control that they have been weaving in secret for the last 100 years.

When you realize this fact. Ask yourself what could the world do with airships and how would it effect this Cartel? Airships would insure an uninterruptible flow of supplies that could not be controled by any one person or group. It's nothing the illuminati want or need, and thus just like with free energy they are insuring airships don't make it to commercial markets, so that "they" remain mostly in control of the worlds distribution of supplies network.

Thus, because of what I have stated above the military is mostly uninterested in airships for cargo operations. They are more interested in airships for spying because spying on the American people is what they are going to turn their eyes to now. LEMV is not a good platform for spying, this was known even before the contract was awarded. But Hybrid airships offer too much benefit. You can see by the Army's actions what the Illuminati is planing, they want to use airships and hybrid airships for spying only. Which is why all these airships are drones, because they don't want humans in control of them. They wanna keep the airships for themselves while the rest of us get spied on and treated like surfs from their blimps which we have no control over.

So I don't trust the government at all when they say they have canceled LEMV. They built the thing in the first place to spy on the Amarican people for the upcoming civil war between the Amarican people and the Illuminati, that's what these Spy Blimps are really all about.

CBS News: "Airships to lift off again? Firm engineers comeback"

CBS news gets to go for a quick test flight of the Aeroscraft, and has a well written commentary about the past and future of airships. This report has the possibility of going viral, I hope the fact the Vatican has a lightning machine doesn't top this story.