The program, dubbed The Falcon Project, is the brainchild of ISU professor and Bigfoot hunter, Jeff Meldrum. It is comprehensive, to say the least, employing an unmanned blimp, long range camera ...

A New Hampshire company is building blimps to be used at the southern U.S. border to monitor for drones used by drug traffickers. Fremont-based Altaeros recently secured a contract to send its ...

The Advantages Of Unmanned Blimps Endurance And Flight Duration. Thanks to their buoyant nature, blimps require less power to stay aloft, which must constantly generate lift through their rotors.

Read more on how tethered blimps enable applications beyond current UAV regulations. November 2015—Colin Brooks from MTRI presenting at UAS Reno 2015. July 2015—MTRI was mentioned for their traffic ...

This unique method marks a fundamental change in UAV technology, with the blimp architecture offering multiple advantages that address the typical shortcomings of quadcopters.

A New Hampshire company is building blimps to be used at the southern U.S. border to monitor for drones used by drug traffickers.Fremont-based Altaeros recently secured a contract to send its ...

The blimp’s basic technology hasn’t changed much over the years. Two balloons, or ballonets, inside the blimp are inflated with air and are surrounded by about 300,000 cubic feet of helium.

The U.S. blimps can also be followed on social media, including Instagram, Facebook, and X. On January 1, 2025, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced its 100th Anniversary Celebration of ...

The Goodyear Pilgrim blimp in 1925, the year of its debut. Its technology remains relatively unchanged. The maintenance for the inside of the Goodyear blimp involves extracting helium in order to ...