Comments on: We Almost Had a Giant Robot Spy Blimp

By: John Powell

John Powell — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:45:51 +0000

JP Aerospace is still going strong. In 2011 we flew the Tandem airship to 95,080 feet, four miles past the existing world record.

By: Space Nookie

Space Nookie — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:21:16 +0000

200 million is not a lot of money in an age when the president spends 100 million on his own vacations.

By: Tschafer

Tschafer — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:48:51 +0000

“Bad Isegoria, BAD! Thinking like that might result in successful projects! Don’t you know anything about US defense acquisitions?”

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of truth to this. Leave it to the U.S. military to create a Hindenburg/F-111 hybrid that cost millions of dollars and was never even aquired.

By: Almost like Usenet

Almost like Usenet — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:38:04 +0000

What happened with J.P. Aerospace’s involvement with all this?

I’ll have to go check their website…

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:16:52 +0000

“Couldn’t you prototype this concept with a cheap hydrogen blimp, existing surveillance package, and off-the-shelf R/C components?”

Bad Isegoria, BAD! Thinking like that might result in successful projects! Don’t you know anything about US defense acquisitions?

;-)