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Pete,
good to hear from you. Amazing how much energy and verve remains among posters! Sure you got some replies.....
I just keep reading I-Hub but with discrimination.
The science is there, the relationship as well.
I am convinced that IR Rob is much more than IR and I believe he is "the person" behind the current relationship and funding drive.
Death to the downward spiral financing during a new "depression" is as incredible as the technology.
And by relationship I mean the technology and the people still working for and funding this company.
THE HURDLE right now is the SEC Investigation.
The moment the company clears the SEC, (if and when) we should see a major move and MIDE said it already.
Well November is half way through.
Pity our CEO made a statement back in August about plans for test flights and then no follow through on that. John should have said something like "long term planning".
They are still planning of course! LOL!
And I bet some posters will come back with a vengeance on delays, lack of transparency, bogus and all that.
I have some of them on ignore, and will NOT reply.
Best as ever
Hallo Pete, back in 2005 that was prophetic!
Pete,
Hi from Montana. I am here reading and musing. We need the financials...
As to which company is in it with a Letter of Engagement from the Navy... well I am waiting for the financials....
Prof Koplin TAO Stratellite, ex_Skydragon, ex_Airdragon, ex Skyworm is a truly remarkable and unique creature.
Truly, truly evolutionary and revolutionary in the way it navigates, flies, station keeps, gas manages buoyancy and lift.
With three pairs of propellers in an equal number of segments, you can do circles, squares and somersaults with it. You can fly the beast as an airplane.
We have seen nothing yet.
Power management and payload to structure ratio in the stratosphere are the crux of the matter the way I see it and financials.
The technology of any competitor is on a different platform, uncomparable and below strat standards. Having the patents is a God send and you cannot fake them. The strat can only be copied.
Well, still here lurking and waiting for financials.....
With our share price no need to worry about the looming, impending, ongoing OTC derivative led monetary inflation tsunami.
There again we have seen nothing yet. And Merlin is more than right as to the Dow tanking soon. It is happening right now.
But we still need the financials. LOL!
Germany has the Baltic Sea..... Anywhere, anytime, soon I hope. Why to put out a PR on the 5th of August if things are not moving forward? Almost a month later, i.e. now: well it is time for an update, I should say.
I join and share in your happines Mide. BANZAI!
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TORONTO, July 24 (Reuters) - Kinross Gold Corp (K.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Thursday it planned to buy Aurelian Resources Inc (ARU.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in a friendly deal worth C$1.2 billion ($1.19 billion), giving the Canadian mid-tier gold miner ownership of the Fruta del Norte discovery in south-eastern Ecuador.
Kinross said it would offer Aurelian shareholders 0.317 of a Kinross common share, plus 0.1429 of a warrant, valuing it at C$8.20 per Aurelian common share. This is a 63 percent premium over the 20-day volume-weighted average price of Aurelian common shares.
The deal will add a major gold deposit to Kinross's development portfolio, the companies said.
The Fruta del Norte deposit is the most significant discovery within Aurelian's Condor Project, part of more than 95,000 hectares of exploration concessions that Aurelian holds in Ecuador.
"This particular combination creates value for both Aurelian and Kinross shareholders, and provides a strong partner for local employees and communities in Ecuador to develop this asset in a responsible manner, which will generate significant economic benefits for the country," Tye Burt, Kinross president and chief executive, said in a release.
Aurelian's board recommended that Aurelian shareholders tender their shares, and the directors and senior officers of Aurelian have entered into lock-up agreements with Kinross and have agreed to tender all of their Aurelian common shares to the offer.
The proposed deal is subject to a break fee of C$42 million. ($1=$1.01 Canadian) (Reporting by Jennifer Kwan; Editing by Scott Anderson)
Why fly when you can float? NYT - 05.07.08
Sanswire/TAO could be part of the answer.-----... one day.
Tried to view the latest video, but there is only one viewable
on SAS-51. At least from Europe. A bit of a disappointment really. Especially after MIDE's statement of Stratellite/SkyDragon making it to the statosphere.
NOW WAITING FOR THE FINANCIALS............ LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG WAIT!
July 5, 2008
Why Fly When You Can Float?
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/business/worldbusiness/05dirigible.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
PARIS — Imagine gliding in a floating hotel over the Serengeti, gazing down at herds of zebra or elephants; or floating over Paris as the sun sets and lights blink on across the city as you pass the Eiffel Tower.
Such flights of fancy may one day be possible, if the dream of Jean-Marie Massaud, a French architect, comes true.
As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered by governments and private companies. “It’s a romantic project,” said Mr. Massaud, 45, sitting amid furniture designs in his Paris studio, “but then look at Jules Verne.”
It has been more than 70 years since the giant Hindenburg zeppelin exploded in a spectacular fireball over Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 crew members and passengers, abruptly ending an earlier age of airships. But because of new materials and sophisticated means of propulsion, a diverse cast of entrepreneurs is taking another look at the behemoths of the air.
Mr. Massaud, a designer of hotels in California and a stadium in Mexico, has not ironed out the technical details, nor has he found financiers or corporate backers for his project — to create a 690-foot zeppelin shaped like a whale, with a luxury hotel attached, that he has named Manned Cloud.
But not all projects are as fanciful as Mr. Massaud’s. For example, a French technology start-up, Aerospace Adour Technologies, is working with the French post office to study the feasibility of transporting parcels by dirigible. Also in France, Theolia, a company specializing in renewable energy, is financing a dirigible, and plans a test flight across the Atlantic.
In Germany, Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei, the successor to the operator of the Hindenburg, has had success with a new generation of airship it uses to transport sightseers and scientific payloads.
The trend is not entirely new. Zeppelin-Reederei carried 12,000 passengers on sightseeing tours over southern Germany last year. Aerophile, a French company that revived tethered balloons, which compete with dirigibles as carriers of passengers, advertising and scientific instruments, was founded by two young French engineers in 1993.
The aircraft industry is not exactly bracing for a dogfight. Mr. Massaud says that Emirates and Air France have expressed interest in Manned Cloud. But with top speeds of around 100 miles an hour and a maximum capacity of several dozen passengers, dirigibles are expected by most aviation experts to remain niche vessels for ferrying tourists, advertising and occasional scientific payloads.
“A dirigible is something magical,” said Jérôme Giacomoni, who was 25 when he founded Aerophile with a friend. “But most of the ideas are crazy.”
Dirigibles, he said, “are very sensitive to storms. Their size requires large landing spaces; economically they’re not feasible.”
Not yet, say dreamers like Mr. Massaud. But gasoline prices are pushing airlines to reduce the number of flights and retire older, less fuel-efficient aircraft. Aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus have responded by promising planes that use less fuel and produce less carbon dioxide.
Such concerns pushed Mr. Massaud to start thinking about dirigibles. Five years ago he worked on a design for a resort community in Palm Desert, Calif., but the result was so radical, involving tents rather than fixed buildings, that its developers balked. “They said to me, ‘You French, you’re all Communists!’ ” he said.
So Mr. Massaud conceived of Manned Cloud, a helium-filled dirigible shaped like a whale, with a cruising speed of 80 miles an hour and a cabin to accommodate 50 overnight guests and a crew of 25. “The large whales made a choice in evolution to live in harmony with their environment,” he said. “They are symbols of life in harmony with nature.”
Mr. Massaud submitted his design to the French aerospace agency, whose experts suggested he reduce the number of passengers to 15 and made other recommendations, but withheld judgment on his design’s feasibility.
“There are niches where dirigibles might still serve,” said Philippe Guicheteau, special adviser for military aeronautical systems at the agency, which goes by the French acronym Onera.
In the United States, research into dirigibles continues, but mainly for military purposes. In 2005, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, briefly explored using airships to transport freight over long distances. Two other projects involving high-altitude airships, mainly for communications, continue.
France’s postal service, La Poste, has civilian uses in mind. Postal officials have long searched for alternatives to trucks and planes, aiming to reduce emissions by 15 percent by 2012. At a strategy meeting last year, officials decided to explore the use of dirigibles on routes between France and Corsica or French territories in the Antilles.
“Dirigibles of the new generation are part of our strategy and represent an area of study for us,” said Patrick Widloecher, director of sustainable development at La Poste. The postal service is working with Aerospace Adour, he said, to study the use of dirigibles.
“Over the medium term, the post office would like to test some pilot routes by dirigible, once a prototype has been developed and produced,” Mr. Widloecher said. He said Aerospace Adour was studying a model 420 feet long with a cruising speed of 96 miles an hour.
A dirigible, or rigid airship, has a metal frame, these days usually part aluminum, part carbon fiber, covered with a synthetic canvas. A blimp, in contrast, is a big, inflatable balloonlike sack filled with a lifting gas. Blimps are far less maneuverable than dirigibles and can lift less.
Today’s airships fly with helium, as did the Hindenburg until the United States imposed an embargo on what was then a fairly valuable commodity. Hence, the Hindenburg had to start using inflammable hydrogen on its flights. By the time of the explosion, zeppelins had carried about 405,000 passengers across the Atlantic.
Airships still have their skeptics today. In Britain, an effort to revive the airship industry suffered a setback in 2005 when the Advanced Technologies Group, which planned to build airships called SkyCats, with a 22-ton payload, went bankrupt. An investor group has recently sought to revive it. The Cyclocrane, a large semirigid airship, was to be built in Germany by the start-up Cargolifter, but the company ran out of money in 2002 after a huge hangar was built.
Thomas Brandt, the chief executive of Zeppelin-Reederei and its parent, ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik, in Friedrichshafen, Germany, jeers at the notion of airships as hotels or freighters. “Illusions,” he said. “Airships are unstable, they depend on the weather, so we fly today from March to November.”
Mr. Brandt’s company succeeded by scaling back its ambitions, ferrying thousands of sightseers and, occasionally, scientific payloads. The company manufactures a zeppelin that costs about $15 million; it just delivered its fourth model, to Airship Ventures, at Moffett Field, near Stanford, Calif. Tickets will cost about $500 for sightseeing trips over the Monterey Bay area.
French political leaders are among those who believe the ships can do more than ferry tourists. For two years, Jean-Marc Brûlé, a Green Party leader and mayor of Cesson, near Paris, has shepherded through budget amendments to finance dirigible research.
“With global warming and the oil crisis,” he said, “It’s good sense to realize this dream.”
Frankfurt looks like going through the roof???
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Absolutely. And this is a statement that has been made by the "new" company LOUD and CLEAR.
Thanks God they are listening to Mide. At last! LOL!
Bob, thanks for the DD. I have come to the conclusion that they have souped-up the Airchain-Skydragon for the ongoing tests. Even in the new web site we have a combination of photos posted from older-latest configurations.
There is a two propeller engine for every airchain section. Either 3 or 4 sets of propellers (i.e. 6 to 8 propellers). The structure of the airship allows for this since inception.
But they must have improved power management (increased energy supply over time)and composite materials performance (lighter combination).
This way they can take on the jet stream........... and set a new record.
Station keeping we are coming!!!!!!!!!
Going to bed now. It is very late here..... GNTYA`!
Sirius this is meant to be a 50/50 JV. I believe you are pointing in the right direction as to the fact that PRs and the new Web Site are English "only" and IR Rob may have a strong hand in that.
But a more "balanced" approach would augur well for the future. Shares are traded in Stuttgart as well. The site I posted provides GTEM quotes in Euros.
IR Rob is in Houston, demos are taking place in Germany, well... to start with this is not bad. It could be better though.
Just bumped on a GTEM German discussion board sponsored by WSJ at: http://tinyurl.com/58fb4h
My German is pretty basic as "Ich habe Deutche gelernt fur drei yare aber ich habe alles fergessen....." LOL !
FWIW it carries the latest PR about Stuttgart demo but in English. Interestingly enough this may mean that the PRs have never been translated in German. What does this "really" mean?
a) Careful targeting of PR to the US market "only"
b) Lack of basic resources such as English to German translator
c) The German public should be informed on a "need to know basis only" as Prof Koplin does not care to share with his fellow city folks what his company is doing just above their heads
I mean, if I were in Stuttgart and got sight of a PAADS being released by a blimp and landing into town, I would expect the news to make in on national TV.
Even more so if a new altitude record would be set by a semi-rigid airship. After all Prof Koplin is no stranger to the National Geographic and other scientific journals.
HUUMMMMM! We need german speaking ihubbers living in Stuggart, but instead we have Alex aka "Klaus Bonn" that may not be even remotely inclined to go back to his native country (and I am not going to elaborate on this statement, just a hunch).
GLTUA!!!!
So where to we stand with this trans-atlantic joint operation?
Thanks Nil
We now have photographic proof that one or more airships have been flying over Stuttgart urban area today.
The chances that this photos are showing Sanswire/TAO airship(s) are extremely high.....
Waiting for a company Press Release.
Thanks a lot to Multi, Bob, Pagan and all
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Poke hi five to you! Your last few posts, your manner of speech, thoughtfulness, prose and respect for others are setting new standards to match for all of us on IHub.
Really impressed with the way you have taken on Mide.
Really enjoyed reading you, wisdom is not easy to come by on any given day.
And of course I am sooooo thankful to Mide, for his continuous active presence on this board when almost anybody else (including me) was sitting desperate and silent on the curb, moaning and musing the incredible losses made to date with this company.
NOW AS OF TODAY AS SOON AS THE FLOATING STARTS IN STUTTGART WE SHOULD BE IN FOR A FEW PRs............................
CHILDREN OF ALL AGES: FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Within three days at the most we will know.
Unless Mide graces us with an instant "any time disclose anything that I feel is legitimate at any time."
I am delighted with a German based demo,
it has a seriousness
an academic heaviness
never on show with neither
Dumas or NASA.
No longer waiting for:
special permissions from Edwards Air Force Base,
impossible transfers of ghost airships,
truck tethered test of leaking, harness deficient,
engine less airships.
Something light and refreshing is in the air
and lo and wonder it flies!
Hog, there are a number of reasons why a start-up, R&D, newly renamed company, under SEC investigation, with a desire to move onto a better exchange, looking for public financing, would want to establish a clean break with the past and publish financials long overdue.
Every thing is possible but your comparison is not my first choice.
I believe Sans-TAO wants/needs/prays/begs/pays/fights and dreams of the day when financials are going to be published. And mee too.... LOL!
Bear,
greetings! You know a lot. IR Bob mentioned Helmut and this is the first time I hear about him. Piecing together the old and new team is like a blind date at the moment. We have hints and apparitions but thin air to hang on to, between wherever you are and Stuttgart and then back to Delaware state via the stratosphere....
What a trip!
You tell us posters that "Dan Montgomery has been with Gtem since 2001.": can you please tell us more about "Helmut". I would love the hear more about him.
TIA, much appreciated.
Mide hallo!
You have been at it for a while now with your biggest claim.
And I have no doubts whatsoever about your claim(s).
In fact if you put 1claim +1claim together you get three of your claims.
For example:
1)"As part of the disclosure that was offered to "secret private" investors of interest in funding this company going forward since whenever...I was approached."
1) "PS...I am beginning to get the drift of how our new Chairman of Sanswire-Tao operates. I would bet anything he has already had the Strat up and back to 60K."
Just a hunch...to make the claim about later this year, I think he knows he has it in the bag.
3) We get a 3D perspective from 60K! LOL! I just added another 50K just for the fun of it.
We have a long way to go: but presenting "to selected invitees and members of various agencies of the United States government" tomorrow without the financials out is pretty unlikely.
Just a hunch...."financials will be this week".
Thanks for everything.
Jon, Dan and Helmut are en route to Stuttgart now.
Bob, for what it is worth, Sherman Schrader video seems to be still out there at:
WHERE ARE THE FINANCIALS??????????????????
Poke: "The (only) true strategic vision" ever expounded has not been executed (Dumas and Huff) but somebody, somewhere must be holding on to at least shreds of the original strategic vision.
To date we are mostly aware and discussing the damage control efforts that have focused on the legal and administrative problems.
The way forward is yet to be revealed. Now TAO is part of this, but who in HQ Florida is in the picture and has residual capacity to articulate something of a strategic vision?
It is nice to have a company cleared from all SEC allegations, with some funding, moving onto a proper exchange: AND THEN.....
Ready for another scam or some serious execution?
WHO IS GOING TO TAKE THE HELM? IR Rob?????
Anybody for a take on this? TIA
tpaero that is the worst case scenario, quite possible.
But then yet again, let us hope that CEO & Management, TAO, the VCs, the Navy still in on around the kennel with SEC, have more than money in mind!
Thanks a lot Frank! Watchdog SEC is in the kennel and "dog GTEM" is still there, inside. Somebody, somewhere owns this dog and wants it to be SEC compliant.
But WHY? ---------- Self preservation, greed and adrenaline rush, staying power, pay back, strategic vision, love for the dog...
We know a lot about the dog, very little about the master(s) and their real intentions.
The dog has (so far) survived the clean up process, if and when we get the financials we will get a chance to see what is left of this dog.
A shadow of its former self, greatly diminished, convalescing, in need of (cash) infusion, barely able to walk, but what a dog!
Not what about the real master(s) behind????
The only dim light at the end of the tunnel is Bernard TAO.
Anybody willing to shed light on the masters?
Rocky, Mailman, Lowtrade where are you?
Merlin are we in the hands of the Grove? Elbit? Chinese Malay? Illuminati? Mossad? DOD?
I am amazed at this dog and I have come to love it.
PS: End of April, wrote a mail to IR Rob and got no reply back. Guess his system is down too. GLTUA!!!
April Fools' Day is just round the corner. Hopefully we will get truth and financials just on time: the day before.
Let us see..... GLTUA!!
PS: Mide has not been posting since 13th of March. Trust all is well with him.
Merlin, Happy New Year!
Every four years is 29 of February and we have entered March one day later. A new cycle starts and this is an important month for the company.
With the 21st, the beginning of a new year, the global financial system in disarray and as much uncertainty as you can possibly hope for, let us greet GTEM to a new beginning while everything else seems to tank and take on the bad luck of this world.
Got a message today from IR. As to the financials he has indicated that the company is "on track to have the results delivered by the deadline"
This is good news indeed, and I am looking forward to the execution.
Also let us not forget:
"Dow to ~7500 by Oct. 16, 2008" LOL!
Yep, highest volume for the day in a looooong time!
Globetel Frankfurt Up 48.94% on relative high volume (3500).
Mide thanks for the insight on the roll out costs of Hotzone technology.
"I have come to understand these past several years, it is extremely expensive to roll-out in apparently any given ground arena."
Huummm.... what else in terms of Mexican experience behind your statement? I am not talking about production costs and losses from financial (alleged) misappropriation(s) etc. etc.
But new data that have emerged from operational realities as to coverage and installation in Pachuca land.
Yes the Strat or equivalent is the ultimate solution but Pachuca due diligence would mean that they went into that JV with at least "some" wrong assumptions.
Would you care to elaborate a bit more?
TIA
Cole 1) No I did not ask and 2) No I did not get a reply.
Why have I not asked?
Mainly because I was trying to beat Hogman's record.
How about you try to write to Rob and see how long it takes for you to get a reply? Make sure it is less than 29 minutes.
LOL! Have a nice WE.
Wow and wow, thanks a lot Pete. Will need some time to digest your links and materials. Have a nice WE!
Cole, it is a poetic license. Not meant in any way to imply that Prof is dead. Legacy stands for what he has already accomplished, and gives a sense of history in the making at this point in time.
We can look back at the very early 90s when Prof Koplin was already working on a concept and technology meant to explore and conquer one of the last frontiers of this planet: the stratosphere.
What Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997)has done for underwater exploration one day will be what Koplin will be remembered for, when it comes to the stratosphere. One of the father(s) of this exploration technology and adventure.
And he will be remembered for the many and important applications of what first of all should be a "peaceful" technology.
Allowing people to communicate, and share into the potential of this technology to study sun spots, cosmic rays, climate change, biodiversity, what lays under the ice in Antarctica, the geophysics of tectonic plates, telluric movements and earth crust displacement theories,in brief planet earth and the science that goes with it.
I just hope that GTEM is the right vehicle for mankind to accomplish some of the above. And believe the TAO partnership is the best news for a long time.
Pete,
thanks for the "invest in the best" lead. It has a trail of Koplin legacy, vision and future. Nice pictures of Sky Dragon in Germany at: http://tinyurl.com/39ocpz
According to the last photo,Sky/Air Dragon IV was first flown in Germany in 2003. This appears to be the same prototype that was then flown by Sanswire and shown on San Diego TV news in 2006.
Agree Air Dragon has been conceived as a High Altitude Airship (HAA)and high altitude testing is linked to the development of this type of semi-rigid airship.
Hog, just tried to beat your record. Emailed Rob and got a reply in 33 minutes. Close but not good enough. I may have another try later on.
I asked about Mexico and NMC. Company is still involved.
"I feel confident we will put together something workable with the Peraltas, probably toward the end of this quarter".
End of March sounds pretty interesting from here. Financials, Strat, Mexico, ....... ???
This company is just not going to die yet.
I am in
until the end
for sure.
Have a great WE and GLTUA!
Sami absolutely great find! The case study referenced on pp.3 is SAS51/Lotte/SSII you name it! The HAA model photo has a striking similitude with all Sanswire and Globetel/TAO technology.
This connects with Merlin, Mide, Allan and HAPS Chile leads and evidence. Absolutely delightful.
Mide agree, synergies to be made and the US is a great market too....
It appears that the US is actually falling behind in the digital revolution and more has to be done to catch up now. Broadband, WiFi and all that. What goes out comes back home to roost. Not always, some of it stays in Germany. LOL!
Have a great day and GLTUA.
PS: An interesting quote from the local press below:
Editorial
By The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
www.tbrnews.org 2-7-8
President Bush does not use e-mail. The most secretive chief executive since Richard Nixon does not want to risk having his digital communications revealed as part of the official record of the republic he is sworn to serve and protect.
Other Americans do rely on the Internet, however.
Unfortunately, our off-line president has set the tone for a White House that is almost ridiculously disengaged when it comes to the challenge of preparing the United States for a digital future.
A Bush administration report released Thursday claims that high-speed Internet access is now available to virtually every American. This self-congratulatory document suggests that, during Bush's tenure, the United States has taken the right steps to ensure that we have "an environment in which broadband innovation and competition can flourish."
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
When George Bush assumed the presidency in 2001, the United States ranked fourth when it came to broadband penetration - the measure of access to digital services.
Now, as Bush enters his last year in office, the United States has dropped to 15th place.
"Declaring mission accomplished won't reverse America 's rapid disappearance from the ranks of world broadband leaders. Just ask the tens of millions of Americans still stranded on the wrong side of the digital divide," says Derek Turner, who has authored several reports criticizing failed U.S. broadband policies.
"Americans pay far more for much slower Internet connections - when they can get service at all - than the rest of the world. Too many people still live in areas that cable and telecom companies refuse to serve, and many more can only purchase slow and expensive connections that can't in all seriousness be called broadband," explained Turner, who serves as research director for Free Press, the nation's media reform network. "Yet while the Bush administration stands by and cheers over Internet connections barely faster than dial-up, countries like England and South Korea are bringing affordable and fast broadband to their citizens. Americans will be left on the sidelines as these countries reap the huge economic and social benefits of innovative technologies."
"What do these countries have that we don't?" asks Turner.
His answer: "A national broadband policy that goes beyond empty platitudes."
That's right, but it is only part of the explanation. Other countries also have leaders who read newspapers, watch television news programs and use e-mail.
America has George Bush