In an instant when… The government of Quebec will be pitching 30 million Canadian dollars (23 million in U.S. dollars) to Flying Whales, a French company, to start building its massive zeppelins. The interior of the Ocean Sky airship. The Age of the Airship May Be Dawning Again March 13, 2020: NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams. If the world runs out of helium, it’s not clear that there’s a good alternative. Season 2020 Episode 03/13/2020. The opulent socialist airship was rushed to flight, even amid a variety of problems. The airships also promise to be a boon for economic development, if they work. The famous footage of the German airship plunging in flames became the overwhelming image of a seemingly doomed technology. Stickleback completed outfitting on 26 May and held her shakedown cruise off the California coast. Launched a year later in 1943 she was moved up to the Boston Navy yard for completion, and her first run of tests. Volunteers work to restore WWII submarine USS Ling. But their calamitous track record ultimately soured the public. In the vast expanses of the Canadian north, there has long been a need for reliable transportation. Flying Whales’ website is enigmatic, and the section of the site explaining the airships’ structure isn’t particularly helpful—the description of its structure reads “what else… – Hi George :)” while if you’re looking for details on their “safe lifting gas” it reads, somewhat snarkily, “helium obviously.”. While there have been shortages before, helium is a nonrenewable resource and can take an enormously long time to generate—estimates suggest the earth’s supply could be gone this century. The R-100 airship, circa 1920. Airship Industries came around in the 1980s, promising a return of the dirigible. Flying Whales’ LCA60T model, according to the company, will be able to carry up to 60 metric tons of goods, travel up to 62 miles per hour, and serve remote areas with ease. Sonar images of her wreckage was made public in March 2020. “If we don’t take risks, we go nowhere,” Legault told reporters earlier in February. Quebec’s investment earned it a 25 percent stake in the project, which in turn brought derision from opposition politicians—one questioned whether the government was inhaling helium when it made the decision. The “capitalist airship,” the R100, was designed and constructed by a scrappy engineering team on a remote airbase in Yorkshire. They were taken on board for 18 hours, given food, water, medical treatment, and set afloat again a short distance from one of the Japanese islands. For a time in the first half of the 20th century, airships were fashionable, practical, and futuristic. But it … That plan went belly-up when the minerals company went bankrupt, although Straightline is forging ahead with plans to offer commercial and tourism flights. According to NBC New York , Hackensack Police were called to … Raytheon was awarded nearly $3 billion for its model, which tethered the airship to a mooring and allowed for constant surveillance of a wide area for a month at a time. Naval Reserve in October 1941. The Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. Stickleback was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 June 1958. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images. Most airships of the day took off using the highly flammable hydrogen—thanks mostly to an American monopoly on helium, its nonflammable alternative. Shipping is more viable as Arctic ice melts, but that often requires deep-water ports and can have damaging impacts on marine life. She was decommissioned, on 26 June 1946, at Mare Island and attached to the Pacific Reserve Fleet. USS Stickleback (SS-415), a Balao-class submarine, was named for the stickleback, a small scaleless fish. Silverstein backed full and put her rudder hard left in an effort to avoid a collision but holed the submarine on her port side. The promise of lifting lumber from far-off places earned the company praise from French President Emmanuel Macron as one of the “industries of the future.”. Construction and launch. Stickleback was recommissioned on 6 September 1946 and served at San Diego, California as a training ship until entering the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 6 November 1952 for conversion to a snorkel (GUPPY IIA) type submarine. Stickleback supported the United Nations forces in Korea from February to July 1954 when she returned to Pearl Harbor. The USS Akron carried out several successful flights across the continent, but it was ultimately pushed down by strong winds in 1933 and crashed into the Atlantic, killing 73 people on board and two rescuers. In recent years, helium prices have skyrocketed as supply has dwindled. Details are compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, UK, CA, AUS) and are based on publisher descriptions. The energy transition of Europe’s biggest economy is running up against questions with no easy answers. Published: 04 October 2020 Hits: 1094 Balao-class Submarine USS Ling - (IXSS-297) The USS Ling 297 a Balao class submarine was laid down in 1942 at the Cramp shipbuilding company in Philadelphia PA. She was launched on 1 January 1945 sponsored by Mrs. John O.R. Eventbrite - Louisville Naval Museum presents Louisville Naval Museum Presents: USS Ling Mess Night - Saturday, January 25, 2020 at VFW Post 6182, Louisville, KY. Find event and ticket information. Hypothetically, there could be an airship lifted by a vacuum—that is, by material that can contain nothing at all inside but withstand the atmospheric pressure from the outside. It would stage a comeback, in a limited way, some decades later, when Goodyear opted for nonrigid airships—blimps—for its advertising campaigns. March 13, 2020. OceanSky cruises has a reassuring FAQ on its website, telling those looking to join them on an airship trip to the North Pole that 600 of their cruise ships “would account for just 1% of annual helium consumption” and that each ship “stays filled with the same helium as from its inception, less a tiny annual leakage.”. Many communities are only accessible by road when winter rolls around and the ground and lakes are solid enough to drive on, if they are accessible by road at all. Library of Congress. Many of these remote communities are reliant on gas generators and are facing shortages of reliable housing stock. The company has only been around since 2012, and it hasn’t gotten any of its airships off the ground—yet. Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd and Design Q. Stranded resources and communities are a policy concern in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia, and elsewhere. NePSD Staff Divers Assist in Floating Historic USS Ling Announcements , In the Field / By James Warnet / October 25, 2020 November 3, 2020 Today, Northeast PSD staff divers put their surface-supplied diving skills and gear to use helping on the ‘Save the USS Ling’ project . Help us save the USS Ling by joining us for a World War 2, 1940s style dinner and presentation. She arrived there the following week and began patrolling. Timothy Lenderking will also meet with U.N. officials in the region. The government airship sagged and crashed into the French countryside just a day into its voyage, killing 48 of the 54 onboard—including the aviation minister—while the private airship conducted a celebrated tour of Montreal and Toronto before heading back to London. Many are banking that the real future of airships, however, is in cargo. She arrived at San Francisco, California, on 28 September as a unit of Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet. The niche purpose of the blimps meant Airship Industries was hemorrhaging money, and it shut down by the end of the decade. However, the atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it was believed the war would end shortly. Fame aside, the blimps had little use for commercial air travel or cargo transport. We exist thanks to the generosity of our donors and the visitors who walk our decks. Stickleback returned to Guam on 9 September and sailed for the United States the next day. August 6, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. It took off, en route to British India, just as its capitalist competitor set off for Canada. Its ships, like Goodyear’s ships, had no rigid structure inside, meaning they could carry only limited cargo and no more than 14 passengers. The USS Akron over New York City in the early 1930s. (“Everybody’s talking about the R100,” goes the chorus of a song from the iconic francophone Canadian folk singer La Bolduc.). Settled into the bed of the Hackensack River in Hackensack NJ, the USS Ling is trapped and in worse shape than she ever was during WWII. U.S. Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images. Washington had banned the export of the gas, in part over fears of the military uses of the airships, which had been used in the world’s first air raids on London during World War I. As with many other commercially nonviable products, airships later found a home in the U.S. military. Murphy front and … The vessel was back at sea on 26 June 1953 and joined Submarine Squadron 7 at Pearl Harbor. Who We Are. The market for military airships and commercial blimps remained limited thanks to past failures, though not dead entirely. The compelling arguments for dirigible travel put these airships in a class of technology, with nuclear power and lunar colonization, that is experiencing an unexpected modern renaissance. It’s that last point that might make the whole idea completely untenable: There might just not be enough helium left. As we get ready to go to the polls on November 3, we're looking back one of the more controversial elections—the 1824 Presidential election. Godzilla vs. Kong, also known by the working title of "Apex" is an upcoming American science fiction monster film produced by Legendary Pictures, and the fourth entry in the MonsterVerse, following 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters.It acts as a sequel to both King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island, and it will be released to American theaters on March 31, 2021. Her keel was laid down on 1 March 1944 by the Mare Island Navy Yard of Vallejo, California.She was launched on 1 January 1945 sponsored by Mrs. John O.R. According to the congresswoman, the funds are being provided as part of the recent coronavirus relief package passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump. Sandy Hook Pilot Captain Timothy M. Murray. The helium-buoyant American ships weren’t always safe, either. In 2015, it broke loose from its mooring and drifted haplessly through Pennsylvania, trailed by fighter jets, before crashing in a field. Posted on August 7, 2020 by Rick Spilman August 7, 2020. As we begin our 2020-2021 Winter Fund Drive, we'd like to remind all of you who are new to the project that USS SLATER gets no regular governmental operating support. In 2016, a junior mining company in Quebec inked an agreement with U.K.-based Straightline Aviation to use a design being developed by Lockheed Martin to haul rare earth minerals from a remote open-pit mine—the road that was initially planned would have cut across a caribou migration path. Theodor Horydczak/U.S. Its main backers, prior to Quebec’s financial endorsement, have been the French National Forest Agency and the Chinese government. It is part of the New Jersey Naval Museum. The submarine participated in the Navy Day celebration in October and, on 2 January 1946, made a voyage to Pearl Harbor. USS Baltimore (CA-68) (1943) ... 8 December 2020 A-7D Corsair II: Bulk Delivery The A-7D is the USAF version of the A-7 Corsair II naval strike aircraft, developed in the mid 1960s by Ling-Temco-Vought as a replacement for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. It is, at this point, science fiction, although NASA has posited that some kind of vacuum airship could eventually be used to explore the surface of Mars. We plan to move her to Indiana for much needed drydock, and create a new naval museum with Ling … The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles historical titles up to the early 1970s. On 28 May 1958, Stickleback was participating in an antisubmarine warfare exercise with the destroyer escort USS Silverstein and a torpedo retriever in the Hawaiian area. The USS Ling weighs 2,500 tons and is 312-feet long. That’s the niche Quebec Premier François Legault is hoping Flying Whale can fill in the province’s remote north. While the most famous airship may be the Hindenburg, it was hardly the first—nor was it the last. An aerial visualization of the Ocean Sky airship. The Age of the Airship May Be Dawning Agai... Foreign Policy illustration/Library of Congress/Getty Images/OceanSky, Theodor Horydczak/U.S. Stockpiles of helium often escape, and are wasted, during other extractive projects. An exploratory group of veterans wants to relocate the dilapidated USS Ling, a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, from Hackensack, New Jersey to Louisville, Kentucky. But a handful of companies are looking to bring back the spectacular dirigibles. The others were Cochino, Thresher and Scorpion. USS Ling Abandoned, Flooded, Stuck in the Mud → NY Ship Pilot Dies, Second Fatal Fall From Boarding Ladder in Less than a Year. The exercises continued into the afternoon of the next day when the submarine completed a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein. Library of Congress, Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images. He received an ensign's commission in the U.S. Stickleback completed outfitting on 26 May and held her shakedown cruise off the California coast. It’s why the French forestry sector is interested in the ships as well. The airships of earlier in the century had immense metal structures inside, allowing them to carry more. Flights are expensive and carbon dioxide-intensive, and they require airport infrastructure. The story of the USS Ling is a sad case study of what happens to historic ships when the money and momentum to fund their upkeep runs out. They are relatively cheap, they can carry enormous amounts of material, and they emit significantly less greenhouse gas than other modes of transportation. The Russian leader is contemplating his mortality—as are his backers. These new nonrigid ships were made famous by Bond villains, Pink Floyd, and, later, by Ron Paul supporters. The rescue ships put lines around her, but compartment after compartment flooded and, at 18:57 on 29 May 1958, Stickleback sank in 1,800 fathoms (3,300 m) of water. China has plenty of Arctic ambitions itself—and vast distances to cover in its underpopulated west. The USS Akron over New York City in the early 1930s. But it was the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, made famous by the newsreel footage of the zeppelin bursting into a ball of flames as it tried to dock at the Lakehurst air base in New Jersey, that really scuttled the industry. These ships are storytellers and the deeds of those who served aboard them provide inspiration to present and future generations. There is no guarantee that the airships will even fly in the frigid north—Le Journal de Quebec reported that the airships will need a significant amount of water, which may be hard to come by amid Arctic temperatures. That means basic goods need to be stockpiled when the weather is cold or flown in by cargo plane—never mind supplies to build long-term infrastructure. 99-Year-Old WWII Vet On Mission To Save USS Ling Sean Adams 6/29/2020 Northeast snowstorm closes vaccination sites in 7 states; CDC transportation mask mandate starts Monday night. The contractor Northrop Grumman was awarded a $517 million contract to build a surveillance airship in 2010, and it managed to build a successful prototype in 2012. If all goes according to plan, the company hopes to get the first airship off the ground in 2022. Raytheon’s hopes of building more surveillance dirigibles crashed with it. She reported to Commander, Submarines, Pacific Fleet, for duty on 21 June. The tethers that kept the Big Brother balloons in place were notorious for snaring helicopter blades—one incident killed five American and British service members. The plan has been derided by opposition parties, not as a flying whale but as a white elephant. As Stickleback was going to a safe depth, she lost power and broached approximately 200 yards (180 m) ahead of the destroyer escort. Airship companies seem satisfied with helium for the time being. The official Special Guests of Times Square New Year's Eve 2021 were the “Heroes of 2020": those whose courage, creativity and spirit — expressed in many ways, day in and day out — helped the city and the surrounding area get through an unprecedented, incredibly difficult year.The “Heroes of 2020” will be comprised of more than 30 individuals and their families, representing a For the next four years, the submarine participated in training operations and the development of both defensive and offensive submarine tactics. But cargo airships may actually make a tremendous amount of sense. USS Ling (SS/AGSS/IXSS-297) is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for the ling fish, also known as the cobia.The ship was grounded in the Hackensack River at the former location of the defunct New Jersey Naval Museum in Hackensack, New Jersey.It is now afloat again and an effort is underway to find a new home for the Ling. Patrick Henry College’s focus on governance gives it a unique place among right-wing Christian schools. The Age of the Airship May Be Dawning Agai... You might think that the tragic end of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 marked a clear end to the airship era. The R101 was constructed as part of a state-sponsored competition, pitting government engineers against private-sector workers. Less remembered, perhaps because its downing was never immortalized on an album cover, was the English airship R101. The opportunity is also caveated with an array of risks and problems. Argument: Dagon, known to the Japanese as Raijin (雷神, Raijin), is a member of Godzilla's species that first appears as a skeletal corpse in the 2014 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla, and is explored further in Godzilla: Aftershock, the official graphic prequel novel to Godzilla: King of the Monsters.. Two American atomic bombs ended World War II in August 1945, and the devastation will be forever remembered. In Focus By Abandoned On November 7, 2019 A similar program in Afghanistan, which became notorious among Kabul residents, saw even worse results. Her keel was laid down on 1 March 1944 by the Mare Island Navy Yard of Vallejo, California. Other than short excerpts, please link to this page rather than copying the entries – thank you! The Ling has been stuck in Hackensack, NJ since 2015. The Historic Naval Ships Association (HNSA) links the public with historic ships from around the world. The money puts Quebec on par with China in the project—Beijing put in $4.9 million for its 24.9 percent stake, through the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China General and the Ministry of Science and Technology. There’s still a healthy dose of skepticism around the company’s lofty promises. Far from just being used in party balloons and blimps, the gas is necessary for MRI scanners and rocket engines. The dangers of hydrogen are well established, and the gas behind the Hindenburg disaster is unlikely to make an air travel comeback. 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