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POPSSolar blimp to fly from NYC to Paris, Rests on Land or Water The folks at Turtle Airships don’t like calling their aircraft a ‘blimp’: “It is a rigid shelled, amphibious, solar powered, all weather, FAST aircraft that is lifted by helium, but it is not a blimp.” Even so, it's a blimp. Nasty memories of the Hindenburg aside, it may not be long before passengers are flying comfortably from New York to Paris– and beyond– aboard Turtle Airships.
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POPSThe Balloon Deflates
But did it? Maybe we're now experiencing a liberal interlude, not a liberal inflection point. After all, only six months into the new administration, even a talented hot air blower like President Obama, assisted by friendly gusts of wind from the media, is having trouble keeping the liberal blimp afloat. The stimulus hasn't worked. Cap-and-trade and health care reform are in trouble. The can't-we-all-get-along foreign policy isn't leading to a more peaceful world. And the administration seems to have no idea what to do about Guantánamo. Congressional Democrats are nervous. Even Obama's media base is concerned. At the end of last week, three leading Obamaphiles offered their lamentations. "The fact is, Obama may be blowing a major opportunity for reform," worried Joe Klein. "There's now a real risk that President Obama will find himself caught in a political-economic trap," warned Paul Krugman. "Failure. Overwhelming, amazing failure," was David Brooks's take on the administration
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POPSFrom Jet Man to Pedal Man?
continues: "It's all going right. He is hovering about 10 metres from the water and is making a really good go of it." It marks the second attempt at the challenge by Rousson after he was forced to postpone a previous bid in June because strong winds made the feat too hazardous. The challenge is a long-held dream for Rousson, whose love affair with aviation grew as a child after watching Steven Spielberg's alien adventure and led to him gaining a pilot's licence. He said: "When I was young, I saw the movie and watched the little guy pedalling on a bike flying in front of the moon with ET. I always wanted to fly." Rousson had been banking on a five-hour wind-free timeframe to enable him to set off. The 16-metre-long helium-filled blimp, nicknamed "Miss Louise" after his former girlfriend, requires the wind should be gusting no more than two knots to become airborne. During the challenge, Rousson is sitting underneath the envelope in a carbon fibre gondola, powering th
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POPSThe Battle of Los Angeles World War II on the American mainland. The Battle of Los Angeles was one night of anti-aircraft ordinance fired at unknown objects over the city of Los Angeles. The incident occurred only one day after a weak Japanese bombardment of an oil facility in Santa Barbara. The objects in the LA sky were never identified.
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POPSThe Future Of Air Travel? Only if the helium supply is better managed. It is known to be in short supply. The details of the craft are interesting, just the same. Electric engines are a novelty, too.
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POPS"Oh, The Huge Manatee!" - Photoshop Friday Ran across this in Boing-Boing and had to share. No real context, just struck me as drop-dead funny, and maybe if you are a bit warped like me, you'll like it too. Source: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/
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POPSPersonal Airship Interesting idea, but wouldn't a flying palace make a great target for missles from the peasants? Much better to build on the ground where you can have walls and barriers for protection. And then fly on your personal jet.
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