{"id":501,"date":"2014-01-30T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2014-08-12T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T05:17:18","slug":"high-tech-cargo-airship-under-construction-in-socal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"High-tech cargo airship under construction in SoCal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSHbIzdHbVw?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Getting everyone on board for a cross-format package is no small feat. I spotted this story, pitched it to powers-that-be in Video and to the local editors in Los Angeles. The result was worth it and got great play\u00a0<a title=\"Military Zeppelin for the wire\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/high-tech-cargo-airship-being-built-california\" target=\"_blank\">in print<\/a>\u00a0and i<a title=\"Youtube: Military Zeppelin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OapLIy46zvs\" target=\"_blank\">n video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"Military Zeppelin on AP's Big Story\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/high-tech-cargo-airship-being-built-california\" target=\"_blank\">High-tech cargo airship under construction\u00a0in California<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON \u00a0January 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: #363636;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-502 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/zeppelin-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"AP Photo by Jae Hong\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/zeppelin-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/zeppelin.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The massive blimp-like aircraft flies but just barely, hovering only a dozen feet off a military hangar floor during flight testing south of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: #363636;\">Still, the fact that the hulking 230-foot-long Aeroscraft could fly for just a few minutes represents a step forward in aviation, according to the engineers who developed it. The Department of Defense and NASA have invested $35 million in the prototype because of its potential to one day carry more cargo than any other aircraft to disaster zones and forward military bases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: #363636;\"><!--more-->&#8220;I realized that I put a little dot in the line of aviation history. A little dot for something that has never been demonstrated before, now it&#8217;s feasible,&#8221; said flight control engineer Munir Jojo-Verge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: #363636;\">The airship is undergoing testing this month at Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, and must go through several more rounds of flight testing before it could be used in a disaster zone or anywhere else. The first major flight test took place Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Military Zeppelin on AP's Big Story\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/high-tech-cargo-airship-being-built-california\" target=\"_blank\">Full story on bigstory.ap.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting everyone on board for a cross-format package is no small feat. I spotted this story, pitched it to powers-that-be in Video and to the local editors in Los Angeles. The result was worth it and got great play\u00a0in print\u00a0and in video. High-tech cargo airship under construction\u00a0in California By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON \u00a0January 30, 2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}