Demand for Blimps Soaring

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By Robert H. Williams

There is no shortage of applications for blimps. Seeking to capitalize on this growing market, a Sioux Falls, S.D., company is now producing large tethered aerostats for military, homeland security and scientific applications.

Aerostar International, which has more than 50 years experience in the field, is offering five standard sizes in a new product line of helium aerostats. Possible payloads include audio and imagery surveillance, communications relay, reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, aerial targets, atmospheric sampling, search and rescue and aerial video relay.

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Re: Demand for Blimps Soaring

We at Hendrix research Inc. bellieve that two plimps 1000 feet long 500 feet in Dia. couldhouse the generators that could be placed into the jet stream to produce over 12 Billion Kwh each and every hour. With the Blimps thetered to a solid point next to a grid to put the electricity so that it could be sold.

BILLY HENDRIX on 02/22/2009 at 22:23

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