re:"It boils down to this..... When they get this right, and it can go to altitude (65K') and carry the intended payload. We'll have captured the industry and rolled out a new and inovative product that will safeguard our security, lower the costs of communication and internet.."
Try looking at the truth.
Sanswire has half rights(if they pay $M that they now owe Kroplin) in a demonstrator segmented gas bag chain dragged by a gasoline propelled weedwhacker engine. Sanswire owes hundreds of thousands in payroll taxes and millions to suppliers, Banks and rents. Sanswire is going on trial with the SEC and probably will be on the hook for more millions. Sanswire common shareholders have not voted in close to five years. The recent vote to authorize more Sanswire shares to sell was done by Leinwand, Erdberg and Seifert with these super voting power preferred shares.
"Zephyr has secured a place in the history of UAS development by smashing the world record for the longest duration unmanned flight. The HALE aircraft achieved flight for 14 days and 21 minutes, reaching an altitude of over 70,000 feet in July 2010."
"Boeing’s spyplane development wing won an $89 million contract this week to build the SolarEagle unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, designed to fly continuously for five years at 65,000 feet."
AUVSI: Lockheed Martin HALE-D set for 2011 test flight
August 27, 2010
Lockheed Martin is to conduct the maiden flight of its High Altitude Long Endurance- Demonstrator (HALE-D) in the middle of next year, company officials have told Unmanned Vehicles.
Speaking to UV at AUVSI North America on 25 August, Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors business development director Ron Browning, said HALE-D was expected to fly its 'validation' flight with communications relay and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads. It is understood to have an all-up weight of less than 100 lbs and can operate at an altitude of 65,000 ft, he added. HALE-D is part of the US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command's High Altitude Airship programme.
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