Way up in the air: World View looks to expand customer base for its ‘Stratollite’ balloon

Way up in the air: World View looks to expand customer base for its ‘Stratollite’ balloon
Way up in the air: World View looks to expand customer base for its ‘Stratollite’ balloon

The company has demonstrated the capability to do ‘pattern of life’ monitoring, staying over a 40 kilometer area for more than four days, said CEO Ryan Hartman.

Lockheed Hands Off Hybrid Airship To Commercial Reseller

Lockheed Hands Off Hybrid Airship To Commercial Reseller
Lockheed Hands Off Hybrid Airship To Commercial Reseller

PARIS AIR SHOW: After investing 20 years, substantial amounts of cash and using the time of some of its vaunted and scarce Skunk Works engineers, Lockheed Martin today announced it is handing off its Hybrid Airship to a commercial reseller. While Orlando Carvalho, head of Lockheed’s mighty aeronautics business, made clear to me that the…

Blue Devil Airship Maker Sends SOS After Air Force Says Pack It Up

WASHINGTON: This is a deflating month – literally — for Mav6, a small Mississippi defense company that’s been working five years to complete a massive military airship, the unmanned M1400 Blue Devil II intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) craft. On orders from the Air Force, “We’ve started to disassemble the airship,” reports David Deptula, CEO…