{"id":192334,"date":"2009-04-12T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/12\/the-return-of-the-airship\/"},"modified":"2009-04-12T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T11:12:00","slug":"the-return-of-the-airship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/12\/the-return-of-the-airship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Airship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img6.imageshack.us\/img6\/974\/aw040620091412l8936301.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>It appears that plans for long duration unmanned lighter than air surveillance platforms continue apace, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-04-06&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/04\/06\/AW_04_06_2009_p46-129961.xml\">subscale demonstrator, the High Altitude Long Endurance Demonstrator (HALE-D), due to fly in August<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>This aircraft, which relies on solar cells and batteries to maintain station for 2 weeks at 60,000 feet altitude with a 50 lb sensor payload, with successor operational aircraft extending both payload and range significantly, though they would be huge, as this demonstrator is already twice the size of the Goodyear blimp.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m dubious of the return of the airship, if just because takeoff and landing are so troublesome in anything but absolutely calm weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that plans for long duration unmanned lighter than air surveillance platforms continue apace, with a subscale demonstrator, the High Altitude Long Endurance Demonstrator (HALE-D), due to fly in August. (paid subscription required) This aircraft, which relies on solar cells and batteries to maintain station for 2 weeks at 60,000 feet altitude with a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}