Is the AWE community at table
with blimp, aerostat, and kytoon associates?

Challenges:

  • Hydrogen
  • Helium
  • Other LTA gases
  • Solar heating
  • Solar surfacing
  • Leak rate
  • Recharge of LTA
  • Pressure control
  • Size
  • Longevity
  • Secondary uses of skyhook beyond AWECS primary use? 
    • Advertising, communications constellation member,
    • surveillance,
    • aerial photography,
    • sky vacation home,
    • recreational in-sky airport,
    • weather watch,
    • recreational rides,
    • excursion viewing,
    • holder of transport cables, etc. 
    • <Send it in!>
  • Reason for use within an AWECS system:
    •  pilot lifter,
    • main lifter,
    • sky anchor,
    • holder of turbines in various ways,
    • servicing other larger AWECS sky parts,
    • launcher of kite part,
    • <Send it in!>
  • How close are we at having ever-up kytoons that self-recharge while aloft?
  • ?    <Send it in!>

Pedal-powered blimp AWECS-service person?

Honeywell assignment

Provisional application:
Eric Blumer, Scottsdale, AZ,; John Thurston, Mesa, AZ; Paul Wingett, Mesa, AZ; Louie Timothy Gaines, Phoenix, AZ;
Yogendra Yogi Sheoran, Scottsdale, AZ. Assignee: Homeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ.
Filed January 7, 2009.    Click image:
 

Do you have your AWE Sector passkey yet?
(four options; OK to be student until you know more about your situation)

Is this guy getting ready to service large AWECS system?