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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAirship hovers in test flight, but wind forces quick landing
A massive experimental airship briefly lumbered into the skies in front of the former military base in Tustin, Calif., where shifting winds kept it from making its first untethered flight.
The 266-foot-long Aeroscraft was built by Worldwide Aeros with more than $50 million in funding from the Pentagon and NASA to demonstrate a novel buoyancy system that enables the airship to carry heavy loads and to move vertically with the precision of a helicopter.
The helium-filled airships only cargo Tuesday was two passengers, test pilot Corky Belanger and Aeroscraft inventor Igor Pasternak.
Not long after sunrise, the airship slowly climbed to about 20 feet, kicking up clouds of dust and debris in front of one of the two 17-story wooden blimp hangars in Tustin, south of Los Angeles, where the silver airship was built.
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Airship hovers in test flight, but wind forces quick landing (Original Post)
Jesus Malverde
Sep 2013
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Trajan
(19,089 posts)1. The precision of a helicopter. ....
..... in a windstorm .....
dionysus
(26,467 posts)2. so they spent 50 mill reinventing the zepellin?
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)5. Yup, while taking food stamps from the needy. nt
atreides1
(16,087 posts)3. ???
What good is it if it can't deal with strong or shifting winds!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)4. I love that the pilot's name is Corky...
Sid