Category Archives: Air ship

Hooghly District Administration Uses Helium Balloons for Aerial Surveillance

Kolkata: The Hooghly district administration has taken a significant stride in boosting its aerial surveillance by using helium balloons fitted with cameras. The move is aimed at ensuring strict enforcement of lockdown in the district, with most parts of it … Continue reading

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The U.S. Army Almost Had All-Seeing Spy Airships

The U.S. Army’s dream was a fantastical one. Build a 300-foot-long, helium-filled, pilotless airship, pack it with sophisticated sensors and other spy gear and park it over the remotest, most dangerous region of Afghanistan, where it would hover for three … Continue reading

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Quebec Government Signs $23 Million Deal To Roll Out Airships

Quebec government signs $23million deal to roll out airships which will begin delivering supplies to remote northern territories in 2022 and help reboot the industry The Canadian province plans to use airships for supply delivery starting in 2022 French company … Continue reading

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Meet the USS Akron: One of America’s Two Flying Aircraft Carriers

The USS Akron carried planes and could even recover them. Although the Navy’s two Zeppelin carriers were impressive, both were lost to bad weather. Nearly a hundred years ago the U.S. Navy asked a question: if airplanes can fly through … Continue reading

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Airships Were Surprisingly Hard To Shoot Down In World War II

Zeppelins, as it turns out, are slightly more durable than your average dollar store water balloon. Maybe that’s why they were a staple of the U.S. military of the time. The Hindenburg Disaster aside, 20th-Century airships were built to go … Continue reading

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