[TML] Cargo Airships, was Re: lifeboats

[Richard Aiken]

On 10/9/07, Bruce Johnson <johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
> But I've been reading that these ideas were 'just about to take
> off...' since the 60's...I'm not holding my breath. In fact the DOD
> killed their 'Walrus' project, a heavy-lift LTA freighter, this year
> <http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002272.html>.

But what about a sensors platform?  I remember reading - in a Popular
Mechanics back in the 90s, I think - about a drill where a blimp was
set to watch the operations of a carrier group.  IIRC, the blimp sat
there at high altitude for several hours before the ships radars could
find it.  In fact, I don't know as they ever DID find it.

-- 
Richard Aiken

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