Sirius: I think the military appraisal of the Strat-2 may have been the death knell of the Lockheed airship project. The 'higher-ups' in government probably read the handwriting on the wall, so to speak, and decided to pull the plug on the Lockheed project just before GTEM embarasses the hell out of them. If the US taxpayers found out how much tax free money was being diverted into Lockheed FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, there would be a tax revolt of the first magnitude. I'm sure that the government is a believer in the axiom of 'time heals all wounds' and feels comfortable that, in time, all will be forgotten.
No man should be considered totally useless....because he can always serve as a bad example.