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i think they did
0.075 ? -0.005 (-6.25%)
maybe next week
eastcor is carrying out the flight testing. they had nothing to do with the 111 design but may have built the argus, not sure.
Eastcor will oversee and carry out the flight testing and demonstrations. For the tests, slated for a two-week period early in the summer, the Argus One will be operated from a ground station and will be outfitted with a prototype intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance package provided by a leading defense contractor working with Sanswire and Eastcor on the project. In addition, the Argus One will be flown with a tracking and monitoring system provided by Global Telesat Corp
http://www.eastcoreng.com/services.html
one of the only reasons I have doubt and reservation about this management and company stems from the following. many talk about how much they have accomplished, but bonus and compensation add up to more than this company ever made to date. what is below does not include Huff and Co. shenanigans. thats not good business, but sure is good businessmen.
The Company has issued stock options at exercise prices equal to the Company’s common stock market price on the date of grant with contractual terms of three to seven years. Historically, the stock options were fully vested and expensed as compensation on the grant date. During 2010, the Company began issuing stock options with vesting schedules and such stock options are generally subject to forfeiture if employment terminates prior to vesting. The Company issued 3.5 million options valued at approximately $194,000 related to 2010 bonuses and 15.25 million options valued at $984,628 as share-based compensation awards to directors, officers, employees and consultants during the three months ended March 31, 2011. Approximately 5,500,000 performance-based options for $363,000 and approximately 166,667 options pertaining to compensation awards for $8,700 vested during the quarter ended June 30, 2011. No performance-based options vested during the three months ended March 31, 2011 and approximately 645,236 options pertaining to compensation awards for $34,800 vested during the three months ended March 31, 2011. At June 30, 2011, there were approximately $582,300 in unrecognized compensation expense relating to these awards, of which approximately $544,000 will vest only upon the attainment of specific performance related goals.
the management team is solid, but that does not mean they understand the product and its limitations, which is exactly what happened in Yuma. i dont know of any DD that tells an investor to buy on the way down after a negative company event, cant find it in any book authored by credible source. not that it wont come back, but nothing has been resolved, nor has the stock price direction.
dont play with balloons on a windy day cause they will pop, or was that dont throw stones.
Im sure they will recover in Yuma, when and what will be the next problem or delay is anybodys guess.
but anyone looking for stock prices to be a bargain here, I say you will have a few chances and there is no hurry like I had hoped a while back. when there are signs of progress and then wind of a contract, thats would seem a smart time to buy.
flesh wound, isnt that what wsgi is saying out in yuma. they better get it together or else the stock and this board is in for a long long period of paint drying.
its in the response, LM would have a team ready with a contingency plan, WS does not have the resources, nor the reputation yet.
it was such a no brainer to bring the portable hanger, which would have changed everything and I thought it was a part of the mobility factor to begin with.
It does seem coincidental that Irene motivated happened at a similar time to this event. and anyone who thinks exposing weaknesses in a situation like this instead of back when they were doing testing for years, is in denial. they would have to do some amazing things to overcome this problem, which by the way has not been overcome yet.
they seem to get to the tethered stage and thats it, no more after that, then a new direction is crafted. thats my guess, I wont say if or when I sell, but realism is starting to set in. current events and comments by warp for what its worth.
i like your attitude, but I dont think there is going to be an ideal ending.
I guess it always sounds better in a room than what happens in the field.
a lot of local news this morning talking about everything, most people on manhattan, who are visiting, are hungry, very few or no places to eat. most of the flooding and power outage is NJ and long island. both places have the highest concentration of snobs in the world. maybe this event will help.
it was no big deal for most of the area, a micro burst, which I have been in, and tornados are much worse than a sub cat 1 hurricane. thats not my issue, its moving around the area afterwards, I am moving this week, this makes it a problem. there is wide spread water issues, power outages, and random trees down. tornado path is the only place that is impacted and the only place you have to avoid afterwards, if you were not a part of the damage.
anyone hear about testing yet.
this storm is really messing my plans up, I pray that it goes out to sea instead of bash the whole east coast. it would be better to even go NW from here where the winds would go down quickly. the timing for Argus to be out there was exceptional.
lets see if they can get news out within the next week. I think we may be in for a run up to 12k DOW very soon.
just performing the testing next week will be a milestone in itself, this company and its shareholders have been mostly talk for years, sometimes downright silly. this will give us something concrete to talk about. lets hope it goes well. its not just about this stock, its about a progressive technology and approach that will give this country new tools, jobs, and could save lives.
MS changed it to $5, long time coming since they lose about 40m/quarter they will take a long time to recover or run out of money.
"This stock is gonna be 6.00-8.00+ easy next week"
really, what happened!
valence will collect on damages and costs incurred fighting for the last 4 years. its nothing but good news.
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2011/08/18/valence-technology-prevails-again-in.html?ana=yfcpc
lol gotcha
he just told us, peanuts, but the show was postponed.
I will be happy when they have something to be happy about. just forward thinking, I think they need to design in a rapid launch vehicle, which would be no more than a helium baloon that brought argus to altitude then released it. no fuel would be consumed and no noise while argus climbed. baloons are cheap.
i agree that its an incentive, but why you are happy I dont know, nothing good has come yet, its still early. i have seen so many with your enthusiasm on many other stocks that went belly up, I know, its different here right. I will admit, all the local investors will be trivial if they do what they say they will do and this stock could come out of penny land.
pumping everywhere are you not?
not true, morgan stanley said 9 when it was 9 on down to 3. although the news will probably keep it from sinking again. figures your from NYC
not true, morgan stanley said 9 when it was 9 on down to 3. although the news will probably keep it from sinking again. figures your from NYC
not true, morgan stanley said 9 when it was 9 on down to 3. although the news will probably keep it from sinking again.
that contract will never have anything to do with this company, cmon folks.
no comment other than it will be dejavu.
never happen, ever, not with hundreds of millions of shares in the float anyway.
I luv listening to Kanode, I wish the company was closer to a blue chip stock, but its products are growing in acceptance globally.
"More to their credit...they have absolutely no qualms about hiring outside help to fill in gaps in their own expertise. "
should not be a problem with the shuttle program at an end. the sooner they get business that can be used to make pay checks, the sooner the aboundant supply of talent will be looking here for a job.
I sure hope it dont end the same though, more shares and a wicked web of deciept. lets hope these guys really have something going and will be here very soon, i mean contracts, not another year of moving around, testing, and delay tactics. otherwise you may see a mass exodus by those inside and out.
there is, the weekend amoungst other things. volume up and price down would possibly hint that something is wrong. this is one messed up company, delays pretty much make them just like before where nothing really ever came of any of the plans, they just keep getting changed or pushed out.
another reference from green car congress
We are less than a week away from the launch of a large-scale battery electric vehicle field trial in Germany.
The ColognE-Mobile project brings together four partners – Ford-Werke GmbH, RheinEnergie AG, the city of Cologne and the University of Duisburg-Essen – to test electrical mobility under everyday conditions.
Ford will supply 25 battery electric vehicles for the €15million project, starting with 10 Ford Transit vehicles while RheinEnergie AG will deliver carbon dioxide (CO2) neutral power to drive the vehicles while exploring the topic of “electricity as fuel”. The city of Cologne will look at the effect on the city’s climate and noise control objectives and safety for repair and salvage situations.
Researchers will examine consumer acceptance of electric vehicles as part of efforts being undertaken by the Rhine-Ruhr region to examine e-mobility. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport with the Rhine-Ruhr region being one of eight model regions awarded a total of €115million as part of the “national development plan for electric mobility” which has the aim of putting one million electric cars on German roads by 2020.
The state government hopes to make the North Rhine-Westphalia region the first large-scale electric mobility model in Europe and hopes to have 250,000 electric vehicles on its streets by 2020.
it was a big deal, I wonder what's next, I wonder how many commercial vehicles they will put out there next.
The German Ministry of Transport is undertaking a $165 million initiative to put one million electric vehicles (EVs) on roads by 2020. The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) regional government recently initiated a $21.6 million road test as part of this federal initiative. NRW officials want to see 250,000 EVs on regional roads by 2020 with infrastructure in place to ensure day-to-day commuting. The NRW’s ColognE-Mobil road test started on Monday with the delivery of 10 Ford battery electric vehicles (BEVs) to area drivers.
The ColognE-Mobil project is sponsored by Ford-Werke GmbH, Rhein Energie AG, the city of Cologne and the University of Duisberg-Essen. Ford-Werke GmbH started with a delivery of 10 Transit BEVs with an additional 15 BEVs to hit local streets in 2010. Utility firm Rhein Energie AG is reducing carbon dioxide emissions in electric generation, thereby diminishing the environmental impact of charging BEVs. The city of Cologne within the NRW will study the impacts of BEVs on pedestrians, emergency personnel and city workers during the test period.
Aside from the commitment of BEVs by Ford-Werke GmbH, the University of Duisberg-Essen is perhaps the most critical partner in the ColognE-Mobil project. The university is committing 50 researchers from 15 departments to analyze every aspect of vehicle testing from delivery through maintenance. UDE researchers will look at consumer concerns with BEVs including potential financing options and concerns by pedestrians about the lack of vehicle noise. The university will also look at the technical capabilities of BEVs including battery degradation, vehicle mileage and charge times.
until after the YUMA testing and results and subsequent contracts, there will be no one that is wrong. simply put the company is showing signs of the old days, and also looking like it has promise in the near future. but then again both those statements resembled Globetel. they look like they are close to a contract but also look close to dillution or reverse split. they look like happy days are just around the corner yet that corner seems to keep eluding us.
my biggest contention is the delay, and now they want dillution to keep going, basically more change without results. they are not telling the whole story sot its again a matter of time.
I do remember Huff, responded to the raising of the outstanding shares. he said they needed available shares cause things could be happening fast. once this company makes that statement, through words or actions, its time to reconsider things. i didnt own it then when he made that statement, but I do own it now.
I also think Huff had real expectations, I think he believes the crap that he took on the company would be burried after success and contracts, but it never happened. Warp and others are closer to the situation than us, but its also possible that some of the tiffs are based on differing perspectives of bad management.
im sure they do, my guess is it either involves problems, or shares.
i have to agree on a few points. this is the last thing I expected and it does not really wash out well. why could they not do the testing as planned, then do it again later with more systems and configurations. its like they ran into real problems that need more time to work out, its the only thing that makes sense.
did he forget what he said
"This is yet another important step towards the commercialization of our Argus One airship. We intend to continue working with our partners to move our airship program forward and the data we receive from our testing at Yuma should enable us to accelerate this process."
I hope you reconsider about this board and shareholders ability to influence new shareholders. this is far from a company that you can do DD on, its a stock with a sorted past and a possibly very bright future. other shareholders is the best way to get info on it without spending months reading through articles and financial reports. for such a risky and small company, its not practical for anyone to spend much time researching this company, if they did they would be foolish to invest here on that information alone. its that simple, all of the longs are investing on conversations close to company activity, hope, intuition, recouperation, or maybe greed at some point. It would also be foolish to not watch this company develop, then if something does happen, like resulting from yuma, then jump in. there will be plenty of time to watch your investment rise later on. this could be another force protection, it also could be another Globetel like company that had good ideas but could not translate it into revenue.
that is probably the best arguement, and unknown parameter, on how large WS can be, or the potential market is.