World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

[stakddek]

test flights? "I shot an arrow in the air, it came to earth..."

SIMULATION! SIMULATION! SIMULATION!

Better to simulate disasters and learn with limited risk. How extreme a ballasting system, motor power and efficiency at altitude, how power exaustive will be stationkeeping? Can the airship move through it's fluid environment the way a fish swims through it's environment? Can it withstand shear if that problem arrises? Better to find out on the ground than risk pouring millions into a fleet of flattened mylar pancakes. NASA has been launching high altitude balloons for years. We've paid now for that experience. To fail to use it to it's full benefit would be calamatous.

Stakddek

"Measure Twice, Cut Once".