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Eye In The Sky: Navy Research Blimp Hovering Over Maryland « CBS Baltimore
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The U.S. Navy research laboratory says the blimp is a government research airship conducting aerial mapping, and that the MZ-3A lighter than air blimp began roaming above the D.C. area on September 21 and can remain stationary for more than 12 hours.
The blimp is mapping in the flight restriction zones around Washington D.C. It includes places like the Department of Agriculture and at some of ourmajor airports like BWI.
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The “Baltimore Blimp” as it’s being called online has even sparked Twitter discussions. People want to know what it’s doing in the sky—others are just “blimp watching.”
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But the blimp won’t be up for much longer. The research lab says after October 5, it’s flying away.
When the mission is complete, pilots will fly the blimp north to a base in New Jersey.
Right now, it is stationed at the Naval Air Station in the Patuxent River
Excerpt:
The U.S. Navy research laboratory says the blimp is a government research airship conducting aerial mapping, and that the MZ-3A lighter than air blimp began roaming above the D.C. area on September 21 and can remain stationary for more than 12 hours.
The blimp is mapping in the flight restriction zones around Washington D.C. It includes places like the Department of Agriculture and at some of ourmajor airports like BWI.
Excerpt:
The “Baltimore Blimp” as it’s being called online has even sparked Twitter discussions. People want to know what it’s doing in the sky—others are just “blimp watching.”
Excerpt:
But the blimp won’t be up for much longer. The research lab says after October 5, it’s flying away.
When the mission is complete, pilots will fly the blimp north to a base in New Jersey.
Right now, it is stationed at the Naval Air Station in the Patuxent River
