Comments on: World’s Largest Music Players

By: Tggb3k

Tggb3k — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:36:16 +0000

Holy Crap, I almost forgot I posted this thing. I was trying to find it a few weeks ago and forgot where I put it. I’m gonna find some good s*** and start posting again because of this.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:06:44 +0000

Erm, Anon, they already posted that.

http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/05/14/aerostat/

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:01:00 +0000

Here is another of these blimps. It flies off of Fort Huachuca, AZ. Its Air Force run, and assists the border patrol if i remember correctly. Since the blimps are the same approximate dimensions I would assume that its for border protection (err, shore protection).

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By: randall

randall — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:18 +0000

given that the turntable is in puerto rico, i would say its more likely to be part of the U.S. Navy. during WWII the blimps were used to fend off enemy aircraft. now they use them as weather blimps and some even have cameras and other instruments in them for surveying whats beyond the horizon

By: zmaster

zmaster — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:35:25 +0000

I think these blimps fly at 10,000 ft. btw, so some ambitious math-inclined reader could do the geometry to figure out the elevation of it’s shadow - or maybe of the camera that took the overhead shot?

By: zmaster

zmaster — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:32:16 +0000

This looks like one of those Aerostat blimps the US Border Patrol uses for surviellence. It’s actually tethered to the turntable looking anchor.

I’m pretty sure there are some high res images of a couple more of these blimps along the Arizona border if you look…

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:17:30 +0000

Actually, fatsdump, that’s less than a mile. I measured it on GE.

By: kjfitz

kjfitz — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:53:22 +0000

Concerning the blimp near the second image…

The blimp is actually a tethered aerostat. The image is of the ground control area for a tethered aerostat. The aerostat is a platform for deploying radar systems “in support of other federal agencies involved in the nation’s drug interdiction program.”

By: fatsdump

fatsdump — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:33:05 +0000

Take a look at the blimp just to the south …
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… and it’s shadow - a few miles to the NNW
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By: Timhogs

Timhogs — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:16:59 +0000

A 6,000 inch record…I wonder what’s on the “B” side…