airships and mellow technologies

[David Morris]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/18ac893302839010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html?s_prop18=whatsnew

This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could
change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aeroscraft, and
when it's completed, it will ferry pampered passengers across
continents and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre
cabin or relax in their well-appointed staterooms.

http://www.aerosml.com/ml866/story.html

http://www.aerosml.com/COSH_democontract.asp

Aeros is awarded DARPA COSH Flight Demonstration Program contract

Los Angeles, California -- October 10, 2007.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded
funding to Aeros Aeronautical Systems Corp. for the Control of Static
Heaviness (COSH) flight Demonstration program.

The focus of the DARPA's COSH program is the development and
demonstration of the technology that will enable to generate and
control the lift during all stages of flight without taking on-board
any type of ballast. The demonstration flight will prove the systems
performance goals: the 'non-ballast' flight will reveal that the COSH
system can adjust the static heaviness.

"We are excited to move ahead with the COSH program and achieve
program's goals. In the past we have accomplished and proved the
principles of the highly efficient buoyancy management solution; now
we are going to demonstrate it in flight" said Igor Pasternak, Aeros
President and CEO.

Under the program, Aeros will carry out the conceptual design,
technology development, hardware development and bench demonstration,
finalizing with the flight demonstration of the system on the FAA type
certified Aeros 40D airship.

COSH technology has the potential to open new possibilities and
further advance all kinds of lighter-than-air air vehicles including,
high altitude and stratospheric airships, aerostats, conventional
airships and new very heavy lift buoyancy assisted air vehicles in
support of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and other agencies needs.

On Nov 7, 2007 8:40 PM, Michael Bailey <bonhommie-man at live.com> wrote:
> There was a big article in the New Yorker a few years ago about a company trying to revive the whole airship concept.  The thought seemed to be that you would give up a little speed but gain huge cargo capacity, and lower fuel expenses.
>