The Aerial Media Group now includes
blimps, in addition to its fixed-wing planes flying aerial banners.
A surface vessel sent weather information to the
blimps along this route.
It felt as if we were being sucked into the back of our seats as the
blimp climbed upward.
The
blimp did plenty to generate product awareness in the towns across the South.
Are there challenges to flying a
blimp in this kind of a structure?
Shearer points out that retailers can benefit from integrating their store logos on the 360 OTC
blimp's multimedia screen, its NASCAR Nextel Cup car and its national network and cable TV commercials.
When complete, the surveillance
blimp will send information from an altitude of about 100,000 feet above sea level, according to its developers at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
"Height, endurance, maneuverability and stealth are key to good aerial reconnaissance," said Glenn Beach of the American
Blimp Corp.
Though the
blimp can carry any number of sensor payloads, the one used for this demonstration was an integrated multisensor package that included a FLIR Systems (Portland, OR) next-generation, forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensor, according to Wallace Miller, ARINC's senior director of international development.
* Heavy-lift
blimp loads, takes off, and hovers: smaller UAVs airdrop and return.