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Indy,
thanks very much for the thoughtful invitation, let us try and make it happen, I like the formula My+1+1+My=Two+Us LOL!
Best and regards monty
Indy bonjour,
And thanks for your feedback and insights,as you said "the complexity of this acquisition has a total Glenn feel to me" and it is "just the visible part of a growing network that every growing company produces."
There definitely is a plan and a vision behind the partners and capacities being brought within WSGI reach and perusal.
Being able to describe, analyze and connect the dots on this board is both a pleasure and the best way to monitor progress for the "new" company that is shaping up. This time is for real.
As the partner actively searching for acquisitions (read WSGI)being granted the right to acquire with limited capital available, it means that what WSGI is able to offer is a unique technology, contacts and contracts package. Otherwise an "engineer type like Kevin" would not be in the least interested to partner.
As to photoshelter, I believe you are being made privy to a tale of two sides as she happens to be my wife LOL! I will have to ask her.
Best and regards monty
Sami,
the plot thickens, Felicia and Kevin Hess, likely husband and wife and Indy is a friend of Kevin even as indy said, "rumor has it"... see below.
Now we have
1) Lighter Than Air Systems Corp
AND
2) Aerial Products Corporation
with and identical address
How about
3) Southern Balloons?
http://www.southernballoonworks.com/resources/about-us.html
Companies and people in an intricate web with Indy in the middle of it.
Indy any takes?
Please enlighten us.
indyjonesohio Member Profile indyjonesohio
Thursday, March 21, 2013 3:45:42 PM
Re: montanar post# 144861
Post # of 145123
......"Rumor has it that the BiB was built by my friend Kevin Hess, who also built my little aerostat and payload platform. If so, WSGI went with one of the best IMO."Unquote.
Other Indy,
thanks a lot.
This is enough proof for even those sitting on the fence.
9.3.20 JIEDDO Contracts with Global Telesat for Aerostat System
Indy,
thanks for your kind reply. Indeed the people of Moab were not mentioned by our guide, but a Japanese archeological mission has rehabilitated part of the citadel into a museum with timelines and narrative explaining the known history of Al Karak. The museum has a copy of the Mesha Stele (original in Louvre) with the narrative of Kemosh, the God of Moab, that brings the Moabites into focus.
Every stone speaks around here....
Well should still be here next June, according to plan A, sure it would be nice to meet in Gezer or elsewhere. I would love to have a close up look to your tethered balloon, have you a fiber optic tether? What is the lifting gas that you are using?
Share price moving up, anybody in the know?
Best and regards
Yours Monty
Indy thanks for your kind and informative reply. It was a long day out yesterday, spring sand storm and all, but your reply has been a kind of a warm welcome back home.
Indeed royalty is all the rage here with Prince Charles and consort just visiting last week not to mention President Obama yesterday.
I am a stone lover and what a coincidence to share both rocks and bibs. I mean your story and bib is just a stone throw away from where I live! And what a little gem is Kevin at:
http://www.lead411.com/Kevin_Hess_8012421.html
and http://www.southernballoonworks.com/resources/about-us.html
what an adventure is WSGI!
As to my stones... you need to know where you come from to understand where you are going.
Just reading Megalithic Jordan by Gajus Scheltema,again Tel Gezer with its eight monumental meghaliths, Göbekli Tepe with its monolith temple complex dating back to 9000 BC and the southernmost (Monreal)Showbak dolmen in Jordan there is a lost connection dating back way beyond know history.
I actually got interested in balloons as a way to carry out remote sensing over Antarctica, obviously once again looking for stones there.
Best as ever and thanks again yours sincerely monty
Indy,
greetings from Amman, going to Kerak tomorrow will think of you as we travel through history. Just caught up with your icon photo. The stones could be Umm Quais/Gadara but the floater in the sky is definitely a BiB.
Where did you get THAT photo? If it is not too much asking?
Thanks and regards
Jeedo Nil,
could you check weather forecast in Arlington, Va. Has it been raining in that location during the last few days?
Mud on the boots, guess the boys are moving around a bit, and sleeping rough, just to test deployment and re-deployment.
I hope they try to shoot it down as well, wonder if the range allows for a grenade launcher to achieve the target. What on earth will it take to shoot it down?
Mud and happiness call for fire and ice, cigars and malts, spirals, press and releases, finally soaring share price.
Guess I just got carried away a bit but the situation calls for hope and imagination. We have been clearly informed that deployment and testing is going on as we write. The BiB has become an operational reality and besides small UAVs swirling around the BiB is alone in the near sky, a reassuring, sharing and constant sentinel at platoon level. I am impressed.
Graphene is quite sexy these days
January 27, 2013 7:41 pm
Graphene: Faster, stronger, bendier
By Clive Cookson FT
The material may have many uses but its discoverers are warning not to expect an immediate revolution
Novak Djokovic, the Australian Open champion and world number one tennis player, strides on to court with a weapons case – marked with the letter “G” – handcuffed to his wrist.
From it, he extracts a racket made partly from graphene, the first wonder material of the 21st century. The Serb’s languid first serve pulverises the racket of a hapless opponent cowering in body armour.
Click to enlarge
Head, the Austrian sports equipment maker, happily concedes its advertisements are trading on global hype and will not say how much of the racket is actually graphene. But the company – like Samsung and IBM before it – is not going to miss out on a hubbub of excitement surrounding the world’s latest miracle product. Graphene is a sheet of carbon, only one atom thick but extending indefinitely in two dimensions. Its properties encompass an astonishing range of superlatives, including better electrical and thermal conductivity, mechanical strength and optical purity than any other material.
Research into graphene will receive a €1bn boost from the EU Monday. Its selection as a European “flagship” programme for the next decade is the latest in a surge of public and corporate support for work on a substance that was unknown 10 years ago. “Graphene’s many superior properties justify its nickname of a ‘miracle material’,” says a recent “road map for graphene” published in the journal Nature by an international group of scientists, including Kostya Novoselov, who first isolated graphene with Andre Geim at Manchester University in 2004.
The list of potential applications is correspondingly vast. In electronics, they range from ultra-fast transistors to foldable computer displays and light-emitting diodes; it promises more efficient lasers and photodetectors; it could transform electrical storage and production from batteries to solar cells. Composite materials containing graphene could strengthen aircraft wings and the biomedical uses include tissue engineering and drug delivery.
Prof Geim finds it impossible to single out the most exciting or promising applications. “The field is so vast and developing so rapidly that to focus on any particular direction would diminish the magnitude of the whole enterprise,” he says. “The number of examples is flabbergasting. Ten thousand [research] papers were published last year on graphene.”
Although there is no reliable estimate of global expenditure on graphene research, Prof Geim says the current input must be about $1bn a year, based on the published output.
Governments around the industrialised world are pouring in money to secure their participation in the graphene revolution. Britain has committed more than £60m to keep the country where it all started at the forefront of research, pulling in considerably more from companies wanting to collaborate with UK academics.
This month Manchester university unveiled plans for the £61m National Graphene Institute, to be completed early in 2015, with the aim of being “the world’s leading centre of graphene research”. Cambridge university announced last week a Cambridge Graphene Centre, with about £30m of research funding. The EU is already spending millions of euros on graphene research – and the Flagship research programme will boost this considerably. “The money will be distributed thinly around Europe,” says Prof Geim. “You can look at this as a huge €1bn seed fund to give companies more inducement to become involved with European universities.”
As often occurs when a hot new technology arises, there are concerns in the UK and elsewhere in Europe about being outpaced by American and Asian competitors.
Some of this concern stems from patent analysis. The latest by CambridgeIP, a UK-based technology strategy company, shows that by the end of 2012 there had been 2,204 graphene patent publications from China, 1,754 from the US, 1,160 from South Korea – and just 54 from the UK.
But patent volumes do not tell the whole story. Quality matters, too. “Europe has not been as aggressive in patenting,” says Luigi Colombo, a graphene expert at Texas Instruments of the US, “but Europe is at the heart of graphene work these days.”
http://tinyurl.com/allny7o
Sami, just reading and digesting, digesting and reading. Thanks, thanks, thanks.
There is a lot of substance behind this patent submission, and a confirmation that Eastcor Engineering has been working on this since 2010 or at least Vojthec has been both with Eastcor and Sanswire.
As it comes, just googled Vojthec Goerge and Eastor and a Securities Purchase Agreement pops up at:
http://www.faqs.org/sec-filings/101110/Sanswire-Corp_8-K/v201733_ex10-1.htm
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This Securities Purchase Agreement (this "AGREEMENT") is dated as of November 10, 2010, among Sanswire Corp., a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), and the purchasers identified on the signature pages hereto (each a "PURCHASER" and collectively the "PURCHASERS"); and.................. towards the end
N WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
PURCHASER NAME:
EASTCOR ENGINEERING, LLC
By: /s/ Anita S. Hulo
Name: Anita S. Hulo
Title: General Manager
ADDRESS FOR NOTICE
8682 Brooks Drive
Easton, MD 21601
Attn: George Vojtech
Fax: 410-820-7044
Subscription Amount:
$ 100,000.05
Shares: 1,333,334
Warrant Shares: @ $0.21 = 666,667
Merlin,
amazed by the eminent tone, quality, and variety of postings here at IHub, at this point in time. (As you can see I am sure Mide means eminent)
A bit embarrassed to post against giants. But I really feel this community of posters is shadowing almost at par WSGI management.
The tone of the discourse includes understanding of the company at all levels: valuation, technology, marketing, partnering, astro-financial intelligence,management profiling and ..... the sharing is truly meaningful.
Even the next 10Q date of release has fallen into place :)
And all (at least for me) under the banner of "hyper-realistic training" like in training myself.
Thanks to all folks, really enjoying the postings these days.
I am not buying any more, it is like who cares about the share price any longer? I did not expect to go through this disconnect between valuation and company. I am still fully invested waiting for procurement agreements to materialize while indifferent to the share price.
Enough of averaging down ;) LOL! Who wants to go down to 1/2 a cent?
And some words of wisdom to try to explain why share price (sometimes) does not matter.
"Patience is sustained courage"
"You need courage of your convictions but also the intelligence and patience to sit tight"
"Wisdom is seeing many things and concentrating on one thing"
Jesse Livermore
Merlin,
good to hear about the high ground and the constant mending. Thoughts and prayers out to all those in trouble on human highway right now. And glad you noticed the "A low-volume scare tactic, IMHO, with many more bought than sold today."
Light glad you like them, if the company can fly high enough the Tibetan plateau is not a bad place to take the Argus.
WC61 I agree with your statement, I was there, http://tinyurl.com/cnebvrf
No internet connection in the monastery, books to read aplenty but otherwise still waiting for the next satellite to complete Tibet coverage with Globalstar’s global “Big LEO” mobile satellite service (“MSS”) network.
I have not lost hope, really only money! (until now) LOL!
Thanks once again Mide, due diligence always pays back, much appreciated
Merlin,
agree, exactly, than the booth will have to be equipped with a suitable large screen and bibs to order LOL!
BDay,
thanks for bringing more evidence to the ground floor.
I am sure it is just a coincidence. But then old friends will be able to meet again and talk. And now that we know we can tell them.
Well after all..... perhaps, it is not a coincidence, and they know well ahead of us and they are in it together.
I am sure our legal counsel is going to walk over to 5020 with a bib or two and give them a hug. The Army does not mind that and who knows they are actually the ones who asked for a bib or two in the first place. LOL!
I am just amazed that they are going to demo a sellable product that meets specifications to (potential) order.
Like the ones from Merlin RFI:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=5cbaae100510fc75f615dd913b0a2713
Quote"
Medium class systems must fly at least 1650 feet above ground level (AGL) given site elevation of 5500 feet above mean-sea-level (MSL), carrying two Mid-size electro-optic/infrared (EO/IR) sensors and having additional lifting capacity of 50 lb and 500 W power for integration of future payloads. Medium class systems must be capable of maintaining continuous mission operations, without recovering the aerostat, for at least 10 days. The Mid-size EO/IR sensor must meet the following: Detection FOV > 6.5 degrees diagonal FOV - Detection of vehicle size targets with 70% probability, 9.0 Km minimum. Detection of personnel with 70% probability, 3.5 Km minimum for both FLIR and TV sensors. Identification of vehicle size targets with 70% probability, 5.5Km minimum for both FLIR and TV."Unquote.
Now 1650 feet/500 mtr is just about right for the bib, I can bet my bibs too on that. The demo will be an issue though, not enough space, unless they can do it the right way just next to the main pavilion and outside the designated demo area.
The key to the contract is to demo that the bib can "quickly and automatically be recovered while the lifting gas is retained in the BIB self-contained helium storage system". JIMHO
WW,
How high do you thing the bib is going to be released? 25'?
And you want to demo driving with the tethered bib, around a square?
At what speed?
How about the "day/night electro-optical/infrared camera with laser capable payload".....
What are you going to show from a height of 25'?
It is just not good enough. JMIHO
Merlin,
we have a big booth (5024) for the BIB right in front of the food service:
http://www.auvsishow.org/auvsi12/public/floorplan.aspx?MapID=4&BoothID=104948&Booth=5024
People will have a bite and will find a photo of the bib in the booth with an invitation to go an watch the real thing in the demo area
Unfortunately the demo facilities are not appropriate for the bib
http://www.auvsishow.org/auvsi12/public/Content.aspx?ID=855&sortMenu=104007
Wish I was there.
The fact that the vehicle can move with the bib deployed at altitude and that "the BIB system is designed to quickly and automatically be recovered while the lifting gas is retained in the BIB self-contained helium storage system" are significant new developments.
The words "quickly and automatically" are key here and will be watched carefully during the demo.
If this can be done many times and/or as often as needed you can have each army convoy traveling in hostile territory with a bib in tow, i.e. an all seeing eye on the watch tower, deployed as often as needed, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, mile after mile.
Same goes for early warning, search and rescue, damage assessment in natural disaster areas.
This is the best thing next to have autonomous flight capability. If you have to run you can run with it, LOL! to a point of course.
Watch out because this twister is coming our way :)
Children of all ages fasten your seat belts, we are in for a good ride.
Share price will just fly with the bib, game over for MMs, short sellers and bashers. Just IMHO
PS: And of course this is what was meant by "spiral development process" except somebody had to be found to be able to do it.
Guess the real heroes are at Eastcor. Wish we could seem them on the company website.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND UAVs CANNOT GO TOGETHER.
Well at least there is no likelihood of a nuclear battery powering UAVs and competing with Argus unique propulsion method. Or is it Skydragon? ;)
SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2012, Issue No. 26
March 22, 2012
Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
** SECRET DRONE TECHNOLOGY BARRED BY "POLITICAL CONDITIONS"
SECRET DRONE TECHNOLOGY BARRED BY "POLITICAL CONDITIONS"
A certain technology that could extend the mission duration and capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) was favorably assessed last year by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation. But they concluded regretfully that "current political conditions will not allow use of the results."
The assessment was carried out to explore the feasibility of next generation UAVs. The objective was "to increase UAV sortie duration from days to months while increasing available electrical power at least two-fold," according to a June 2011 Sandia project summary.
And that objective could have been achieved by means of the unidentified technology, which "would have provided system performance unparalleled by other existing technologies," the project summary said.
"As a result of this effort, UAVs were to be able to provide far more surveillance time and intelligence information while reducing the high cost of support activities. This technology was intended to create unmatched global capabilities to observe and preempt terrorist and weapon of mass destruction (WMD) activities."
But it was all for nought.
"Unfortunately, none of the results will be used in the near-term or mid-term future," the project summary stated. "It was disappointing to all that the political realities would not allow use of the results."
Not only that, but "none of the results can be shared openly with the public due to national security constraints."
On close reading, it seems clear that the Sandia-Northrop project contemplated the use of nuclear technology for onboard power and propulsion.
The project summary, which refers to "propulsion and power technologies that [go] well beyond existing hydrocarbon technologies," does not actually use the word "nuclear." But with unmistakable references to "safeguards," "decommissioning and disposal," and those unfavorable "political conditions," there is little doubt about the topic under discussion.
Furthermore, the project's lead investigator at Sandia, the aptly named Dr. Steven B. Dron, is a specialist in nuclear propulsion, among other things. He co-chaired a session at the 2008 Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion at the University of New Mexico.
Interestingly, opposition to flying nuclear power sources in this case was internalized without needing to be expressed, and the authors were self-deterred from pursuing their own proposals. "The results will not be applied/implemented," they stated flatly.
Meanwhile, integration of (conventional) unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System will proceed, as mandated by Congress. On March 6, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a request for public comments on the pending designation of six UAS test sites around the country.
Last month, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and other public interest organizations petitioned the FAA "to conduct a rulemaking to address the threat to privacy and civil liberties that will result from the deployment of aerial drones within the United States."
_______________________________________________
Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists
WW sobering and pretty significant, I take you got this info confirmed from a reliable source. Go SWGI! :)
The same specs could apply to the tethered version of the Argus MTS lower altitude aerostat, just in case Argus MTS needs to fly around beyond the tethered radius (this will require some thrust capability at the expense of payload capacity)but would increase tactical applications in a variety of situations.... including when the tether is cut loose, LOL!
Mide,
A different take from what can be glimpsed on "DOD approved material" for public consumption as to Argus command and control technology.
We see both at start on the latest video and screen shots (no.3) a fourth man next to the Argus being launched with a box with an aerial in his hands. As simple as that. A joy stick remote control solution, out of UAV available technology.
And
"In preparation for subsequent DoD coordinated flights, the Argus One UAV has been re-stationed at the N2S2 facilities where the airship remains inflated inside a hangar facility for further testing, evaluation and demonstrations as weather conditions and scheduling permit."
And
The share price and volume has move accordingly.
Merlin,
happy new year to you and all on this board.
And yes, really looking forward to the update from Barbara. The fact that there has been NO negative news from the testing grounds (is it still Yuma?) and Barbara confirmation that news is forthcoming is a definite plus.
My guts are just ahead of the Mayan calendar...... LOL ;)
Also "Flight of the SkyDragon - the Original"
at http://www.tao-group.de/en_tec-news.html
If we compare the two flights, Skydragon has more grace, speed and stability.
Merlin,
good morning. Any news from the side of Institutional Investors?
TIA
WSGI/TAO Parallel improvements to flight control.
Huumm. Any similarities and sharing of technology at work between ex partners?
Sanswire Files Provisional Patent on New Airship Design
Company Moves to Protect New Airship Design
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/24/11 -- Sanswire Corp. (OTCBB: SNSR), a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and related technologies, announced today that it has filed a provisional patent application in the United States for a new airship design. The technology was developed for Sanswire under contract by Eastcor Engineering, a US Department of Defense prime contractor, specializing in high technology engineering products and services. Sanswire filed the provisional patent to ensure protection of its intellectual property and position itself to unveil and demonstrate the Company's technology.
The provisional patent application is for an unmanned, autonomous airship with automated control for individual modules for improved flight stability and aerodynamic control. The design features the ability to control the rigidity between each module and the ability to pivot. The modules are operated by microcontrollers based on aerodynamic requirements. The airship's altitude, overall response and handling characteristics and flight control utilizes a system of ballonets contained within each individual module, thereby creating a dynamically adjustable airship.
SkyDragon - The basis for long-term flights
2011-05-04: TAO’s scientific team has successfully performed a total system-level integration paving the road for the ultimate beginning of the long-term flight tests.
After seven years of intensive research and development a new method for control and stabilisation of the SkyDragon high altitude platform has been successfully applied and has demonstrated its overall efficiency by a number of test flights.
The stabilisation and control of the platform is achieved by a system of so called relative-movements of the single correlated segments. The test demonstrations also included final tests on the efficiency of the new power gas propulsion system.
Based on the encouraging results of the total system-level integration further tests are shortly on its way starting the ultimate tests for long term flights.
Jim,
on this thread since Mide first posted Yuma, evidence is definitely building up that this is THE testing ground for lighter than air platforms.
And yes, i agree, the payload in volume, weight, position and technology is an integrated component of any serious testing.
Silence sometimes is a good thing.....especially on icy roads.
How do you make yourself noticed, whistle, shout or horn? Take care!
Sounds like an isolated place where systems integration could be tested away from prying eyes and competitors prior to public demo of the spiral development prototype???
TAO on the move at Xmas at:
http://www.tao-group.de/en_tec-news.html
Christmas-Testflight in winter at minus ten degrees celsius and snow
Happy New Year to ALL on this board.
2011 will be TAO-SNSR's year!
And we should not forget the "blue riband"
Making history in style...
Quoted from Wikepedia:
The Blue Riband (pronounced /?blu? 'r?b?nd/) is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed. The term was borrowed from horse racing and was not widely used until after 1910.[1][2] Under the unwritten rules, the record is based on average speed rather than passage time because ships follow different routes.[3] Traditionally, a ship is considered a “record breaker” if it wins the eastbound speed record, but is not credited with Blue Riband unless it wins the more difficult westbound record against the Gulf Stream.[1]
Of the 35 Atlantic liners to hold the Blue Riband, 25 were British, followed by five German, three American, as well as one each from Italy and France. 13 were Cunarders (plus Queen Mary of Cunard White Star), 5 by White Star, with 4 owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd, 2 by Collins, 2 by Inman and 2 by Guion, and one each by British American, Great Western, Hamburg-America, the Italian Line, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and finally the United States Lines.[1] Many of these ships were built with substantial government subsidies and were designed with military considerations in mind.[3] Winston Churchill estimated that the two Cunard Queens helped shorten the Second World War by a year.[4] The speed of the last Atlantic liner to hold the Blue Riband, the United States was designed for her potential use as a troopship rather than her service as a commercial passenger liner.[3]"Unquote
Janes' Defense coming on board???
Eyes down: at last a viable role for airships? 06 October 2010
The TCOM Model 74M JLENS aerostat, 74M.001, made its maiden flight on 25 August 2009. (TCOM)
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/idr/idr101006_1_n.shtml
Lighter-than-air vehicles (LAVs) have been employed for surveillance purposes since France's June 1794 campaign against Austria, but their popularity has ridden a roller-coaster of peaks and troughs ever since and they have thus far not truly managed to fulfil their potential.
Periodic interest peaked with airships being used as long-range bombers and even undertaking trials as aircraft carriers, but accidents and problems with materials essentially relegated them to little more than civil curiosities for most of the latter half of the 20th century.
However, LAVs' fortunes are in the ascendancy once more as military operators seek long-endurance sensor platforms and potential transports or patrol aircraft at relatively low costs. Indeed, the light transport aircraft sector is seeing something of a resurgence driven specifically by the needs of operations in Southwest Asia and the desire for persistent surveillance platforms that can remain airborne for weeks, months or even years at a time.
By their nature, LAVs in effect stay aloft for 'free' and can reach extremely high altitudes, offering the potential to operate as pseudo-satellites providing an elevated surveillance or communications relay platform. This natural buoyancy also makes it possible to more cost-effectively lift a greater payload to a given altitude than would be achievable with an equivalent heavier-than-air vehicle, as it skews the power/lift equation in favour of payloads rather than simply keeping the vehicle airborne.
Airship propulsion requirements are relatively modest, being largely restricted to overcoming initial inertia during take-off, station-keeping during a mission and overcoming natural buoyancy during landing. Such natural buoyancy is useful for achieving persistence as LAVs largely overcome the endurance restrictions inherent in the fuel-load constraints of heavier-than-air platforms. Persistence is further enhanced, particularly at very high altitudes, by the LAVs' large surface area, which enables them to accommodate photo-electric cell technology to produce electrical power from sunlight for payloads and station-keeping.
Ironically, since early airships developed a reputation for being dangerous, proponents of modern LAVs contend that their construction and buoyancy medium – once volatile hydrogen, but now mostly inert helium – render them relatively invulnerable to battle damage.
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Copyright © IHS (Global) Limited, 2010
Rwehapi,
And the updates keep coming!
Two more and a very nice photo of a 'Banner' high up in the sky!
at http://www.tao-group.de/en_tec-news.html
Amazing grace!
It is definitely a 'she'
And she was there yesterday during flight demos in Easton~)
10.04
And then today, we rest - well not really. While Doug had to head off to work bright and early, I've been doing boat chores all day trying to get ready for the day I have to head back to work (Wednesday!!!!) No longer the woman of leisure, I'm trying to get all our errands done in anticipation of having no free time again!!
10.02
I fly off to Easton, MD (which we've actually been to before when cruising the Chesapeake which no one at Sanswire could believe!) this Wednesday to their facility to see a demo of the airship - how kewl!!!
http://mvgypsiesinthepalace.blogspot.com/
Tec-News
Additional test flights of the 5 segments SkyDragon in Germany
2010-10-07: Additional test flights of the 5 segments SkyDragon have been successfully performed in Germany. New stabilization systems have been tested.
http://www.tao-group.de/en_tec-news.html
Merlin,
I thinks like Sami that it is a "she", Tammy Lady ;=)
RWP
Best video clip 09.29 ever of the new monster, at:
http://www.tao-group.de/filme/tec-news_29092010.wmv
The good thing is that Easton has been mentioned, first Tec-News of 09.21 not indicating link with Sanswire, second Tec-News of 09.29 clearly connecting the dots.
The first video clip posted on 09.21 at:
http://www.tao-group.de/filme/tec-news_21092010.wmv
offers less details then the second clip.
Having watched both many times, you can speculate on a lot of improvements:
1) Unique gas lifting/propellant combination. If the last four segments are filled with propellant with a neutral weight, the buoyancy is just amazing. SD floats away effortlesly
2) Solar panels on the first segment??
3) Not only new landing gear but two propellers??
4) 2nd and 3rd segments in 29092010.wmv clearly showing additional inner tube containment chambers. Testing propellant storing technology? How do you direct propellant flow?
5) Silent engine....
6) Smiley and sense of humor. LOL!
Very good week indeed.
PS. Mide is right when saying no SEC clearance=no Gov. contracts.
Another smiley
Quote at http://www.tao-group.de/en_tec-news.html
Tec-News
Further test flights of the 5-segment-prototype with on-board-camera
2010-09-29: At September 29th further test flights of the 5-segment-prototype have been successfull performed. The on-board-camera discovered incidentally a Smiley-Image on the flight field meadow.
Initial flights of the STS-111 in Easton Airport
http://www.tao-group.de/filme/tec-news_29092010.wmv
2010-09-27: In September 27th the STS-111 had initial flights in Easton Airport. The system was sent to the US in June 2010 from TAO Group Germany for demonstration. His older brother SD 23 in the German hangar keeps his fingers crossed for further success while reading this message.
Bob, Lotte with solar panels on pic. 4
This is the first time I see the panels deployed on the actual skin of Lotte. Consider that the corset applied to the body of Lotte to ensure a diameter of less than 3 meters during transport, is bound to constrain the shape of the airship irrespective of altitude.
By default this implies a certain degree of elasticity when the airship is freed from the corset and is in flight mode.
Those solar panel elements must conform to the kind of flight compliance characteristics of a fully deployable airship. Sure they are not just glued to look nice!
And we have an electric propeller that goes with it.
HUUMMM interesting, very interesting, exciting, very exciting.
Je dirais meme plus "we hakve a situaktion khere" LOL.
Much appreciated.
Northgate Minerals Comments on Recent Market Activity
12.22.2008
VANCOUVER, Dec. 22 /CNW/ - Northgate Minerals Corporation (TSX: NGX, NYSE ALTERNEXT US/AMEX: NXG) today commented on the large trading volume of the Company's shares and subsequent share price decline, which took place during market trading hours on Friday, December 19, 2008, on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE Alternext. The company believes that the noted market activity was due to its deletion from the S&P/TSX Composite Index, resulting in a large sell-off by index-based investment funds. As part of its quarterly review, the S&P/TSX Composite Index announced the removal of more than 20 companies from its index, effective after the close of trading on Friday, December 19.
Northgate believes that the current share price is considerably undervalued and does not reflect the recent and significant developments of the company, which includes the doubling of its gold resource base to over 4.0 million ounces at the Young-Davidson property, the 18-month mine-life extension at the Stawell Gold Mine and the dramatic improvement of operations at the Fosterville Gold Mine, which is expected to contribute to the record quarterly gold production in the fourth quarter.