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To: tiki
Around here we have something called an Aerostat. I don't know how it works and it looks like a blimp connected by guy-wires.

Sort of like this?

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They are just big balloons, with the radar inside the balloon envelope. They are indeed tethered to the ground. Information can be fed into NORAD regional control centers. The upper photo is from near Marfa Texas, the other from Cudjoe Key Florida.

224 posted on 01/25/2005 3:26:22 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: El Gato

Yes, I live about 5 miles from the one in New Mexico.


248 posted on 01/25/2005 7:00:19 PM PST by tiki (Won one against the Flipper)
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