New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A massive, silver-colored blimp is expected to arrive in the Gulf Coast Tuesday to aid in oil disaster response efforts.The U.S. Navy airship will be used to detect oil, direct skimming ships and look for wildlife that may be threatened by oil, the Coast Guard said Monday.
The 178-foot-long blimp, known [...]

AVWK ARES BLOG:Patent Lifts Veil on Boeing’s Speed AgilePosted by Graham Warwick at 7/2/2010 9:02 AM CDT
I am researching something on future airlifters and wanted artwork on the stealthy super-STOL tactical transport Boeing windtunnel tested under the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Speed Agile program. I asked Boeing if they had a releasable image. No, [...]

CNN) — An unmanned cargo spacecraft failed to dock as scheduled Friday with the International Space Station, a NASA spokeswoman said.The Progress cargo vessel, a resupply craft, was trying to dock with the space station when a technical problem occurred about 20 minutes before the scheduled docking time, said Lynette Madison, the spokeswoman.The vessel flew [...]

Police are on high alert across Pakistan after a deadly suicide attack on a Sufi Islamic shrine in the eastern city of Lahore.
Security has been increased in Lahore and at Sufi shrines across the country, after 42 people died at the Data Darbar shrine on Thursday.
Protesters have demonstrated outside the shrine, in anger at what [...]

London, England (CNN) — The former husband of alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman said her personality changed after she started having “secretive meetings” with Russian friends a few years ago.
Alex Chapman told The Daily Telegraph newspaper he “hardly knew her anymore” after she became involved with shadowy contacts.Anna Chapman also confided to her husband that [...]

Reuters) - Patriotic, anti-American messages adorn the pages of two alleged Russian spies on Russia’s answer to Facebook, a reminder of historic suspicions and resentments that have survived the end of the Cold War.
“Russia will never abandon you!” is the repeated message on the pages of Mikhail Semenko and Anna Chapman, arrested in the United [...]

(CNN) — International and Afghan security forces wounded and captured a Taliban district chief and killed a “large number” of insurgents in a four-hour firefight, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said in a statement Thursday.The battle took place in a compound outside a village in the Baghran district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province after insurgents opened [...]

CNN) — A suspected Russian spy is missing after being arrested in Cyprus and released on bail, a police spokesman told CNN on Wednesday.
Authorities arrested Robert Christopher Metsos, 55, in Larnaca after an Interpol “red notice” was served on him, Cypriot police said Tuesday.
Police said he was released on bail pending further proceedings but was [...]

DIY: Military UHF SATCOM antennaPART TwoBy Steve Douglass
Is it just me (probably) or do antennas cost way too much? Sure that’s an odd statement to make.
I mean-how often does the average Joe think about the costs of antennas – right?
But I have never been an average Joe – and never wanted to [...]

Ultimate DIY: Military UHF SATCOM antennaPART ONE By Steve Douglass
I remember the first time I saw a Dorne & Margolin UHF portable SATCOM antenna.
It was many years ago at the annual “ROVING SANDS” military exercises held in southern New Mexico. I was there covering the games as an aviation journalist.
The world’s largest [...]