"READY TO SOAR - This mysterious-looking airship was spotted Tuesday morning near Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale." RON SIDDLE/Valley Press "READY TO SOAR - This mysterious-looking airship was spotted Tuesday morning near Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale." RON SIDDLE/Valley Press Everyone who reads this thread will be visited by the Men in Black. And killed.
I have more to say, but someone is knocking at my door. Be right back ...
I, for one, welcome our alien overlords.
Hahahahaha! There's a company called Skunk Works and it's the only within a radius of 200 miles that gets rid of bats.
I'll have Scully and Muldur look into it.
Lakehurst NJ ping
Always loved LTA craft. Would get a thrill when I would see the rare blimp go over head when I was a kid.
Guess the last one was a navy blimp over the North Carolina coast back in 1994 or '95.
I would love to see new airship designs plying the skies once more.
Clearly there's a shape-shifting aspect to this craft....
Back when The Skunk Works in Palmdale used to have a Gift Shoppe (honest!) I ordered some knickknacks from there -- refrigerator magnets, coffee mug, license plate frame, etc.
The box they sent the stuff in was a standard USPO mailing box sealed with the cheeriest Smiley Face tape and cushioned inside with the local newspaper. There was also a big Smiley Face dran on the enclosed receipt.
They're a cheery bunch there at Black Ops Central.
Lockheed was proposing long range unmanned airships at least back in the late 1980s to my knowledge. Back then, the idea was to do ASW patrol over the Denmark Strait area to catch Russian subs coming into the Atlantic. The ship was to be propelled by small hydrogen powered engines. I never could understand how such a craft could deal with 100+ knot jetstream winds.
Alien technology. Now we have to figure out why they preferred blimps.
Art Bell ping!
You don't test the real stuff in Palmdale. You test it in remotest Nevada and other dry uninhabited places. I don't know what to make of this article
I'm not sure if someone else has mentioned this on this thread or not but several years ago I read an article about a German company that was exploring new uses for LTA craft. As I remember the idea was to use it for extremely heavy long distance lifting. The plan was to be able to build bridge sections (or other objects) in one area then lift and place the sections where they were needed.
