Micro Tale Beta's Airships Released!
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:13:48 -0800

Fort Oglethorpe, GA - January 9th, 2011 - Fellow disciples of that holy path of building, mining, and blowing junk up: find new solace in gathering resources to take to the skies in the mighty airships of Micro Tale! Spend not thine precious hours ...

Quick-thinking Richard Branson pulls off clever PR stunt in London here are ...
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:57:48 -0800

In a move that exemplifies Branson's quick-thinking, the company was able to erect an airship with a slogan that poked fun at the company and promoted Branson's corporation at the same time. I was woken up at 5.30am one morning to be told that the ...

Lichborne: Fall of Deathwing Raid Finder tips for death knights
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:06:52 -0800

Once Ultraxion is dead, you'll board an airship and face Warmaster Blackhorn. As a melee DPSer and tank, you'll focus on the melee adds that jump on board the airship , followed by Blackhorn himself. The melee adds do frontal cone damage, so tanks, ...

History in black and white
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:51:27 -0800

The gigantic airship hovers in black and white like a strange UFO above the Old City. In a third picture, large sailboats are seen in the Yarkon estuary; in a fourth, a European-style clock tower rises above the Jaffa gate and in a fifth the Kapulsky ...

Phuket Books: Fair game in the Windy City
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:46:03 -0800

PHUKET: Thomas Pynchon's epic 1000-page novel Against the Day opens with a boy's adventure tale: the arrival of the Chums of Chance aboard their airship at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. In The Devil in the White City (Vintage Books, New York, 2004, ...

Airship Travelogues Episode 013: From Nintendo to Microsoft
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:56:47 -0800

You can send in feedback to airship at nintendojo dot com, facebook.com/nintendojo or twitter.com/nintendojo! You can also leave a comment below! My two and a half year old daughter has been playing Electro Plankton for about a year now.

Clockwork Con 2012
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:13 -0800

The airship fleets converge on Austin Texas, gathering to defend our right to freedom, imagination and creativity. Among those gathered to support the fleet will be such honorable guests as Emperor Justinian of the Red Fork Empire, Captain Cedric ...

'To the Sky Whale!'
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:22:21 -0800

Ask most people to name whatever two real-life airships first come to mind, and they'll come up with "the Hindenburg" and "the, uh what's the one that blew up? Is that the Hindenburg?" (Classic-rock lovers might also answer with "that one on the ...

DOD Testing Worm-Like Airship in Nevada
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:15:17 -0800

The odd-looking airship is called the Argus One, and it was developed by World Surveillance Group (WSG). The Argus One, which is an unmanned autonomous airship , is capable of hanging in the air at altitudes of 1000 to 2000 feet for days while ...

NASS Awarded Contract for Blue Devil II Airship
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:51:22 -0800

North American Surveillance Systems Inc., (NASS), a global leader in surveillance system integration, has been awarded multiple contracts for the US Air Force Blue Devil Block II Airship . NASS is bringing its extensive experience in aircraft systems ...

Indie Game Developer Trying to Get Players to Play as Teams
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:12:32 -0800

An airship flies over a desert in an artistic rendering from indie game Guns of Icarus Online. (Courtesy of Muse Games) Guns of Icarus Online is looking to be one of the most innovative multiplayer games of the year, with airship combat in a vast world ...

The Dark Knight Rises toy reveals name of Batman's flying vehicle
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:50:37 -0800

A remote-controlled version of the Caped Crusader's airship ends the speculation of what he'll call it. Remember that epic flying vehicle spotted in The Dark Knight Rises trailer that we were all oohing and ahhing about? Well, turns out it isn't the ...

'Erratic' driver chased from Malibu to Mid-City
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:27:37 -0800

An LAPD airship was overhead as the chase wound through West LA, the South Robertson area and the Wilshire District. The pursuit ended near Pico and Redondo boulevards, according to reports at the scene. Paramedics were dispatched at 10:51 am to the ...

Cox queries Ewatski link to private plane firm
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:16:40 -0800

Cox noted Government's dismantling of various security units including the blimp airship . Cox said the police service had signed a letter of intent in September with T&T Air Support Company (TTASC) to provide light airplane policing assistance.

Simon Munnery, Hyena Lounge Comedy Club, City Screen, York, February 5; Leeds ...
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:52:08 -0800

It's actually about the R101 airship of the 1930s, but it's in the style of Joe Strummer. It's kind of a meta-pun. Did you know he specifically changed his name to Strummer because he couldn't play any chords. I'm with him there!

Aircraft strategy a lightweight solution
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:03:55 -0800

The much-ballyhooed blimp seemed to make no difference to an escalating crime rate, with the best defence then-national security minister Martin Joseph could offer being that things would have been far worse without the airship .

Eureka Airship
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:51:04 -0800

Often seen cruising Bay Area skies about 1000 feet off the ground, the Eureka airship is one of only two of its type in the world, and the only one in the United States that carries commercial passengers. This German-made zeppelin, owned by Airship ...

On This Day in Aviation History: February 2nd
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:21:38 -0800

1950 - Japan Air Lines begins twice-weekly service to San Francisco, the carrier's first international route. 1872 - French navy-engineer Dupuy de Lome gets his elbow-grease powered airship up to a top speed of 11 km/h. N604PE sits at the gate at ...

Airships touted as supply vessels for remote northern communities
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:36:53 -0800

Barry Prentice and Dale George will begin testing an airship this spring for use bringing everything from fresh fruit and vegetables to fuel and construction supplies to Manitoba reserves. It's an idea of particular interest right now, ...

"Frank Reade" Flies Again with "Boilerplate's" Guinan & Bennett
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:44 -0800

It's getting into more recent territory, it's getting into the pre-atomic age -- even though those helicopter airships look so crazy, you can almost imagine they could fly, so you can get a little more into how they might work, but with Kate Reade's ...