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Ohhh... had to look that up:Synthetic Helium anyone?
https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100308073643AAoVGj1
... I'm more a fan of hydrogen. Works great... if ya don't shoot at it and watch out for lightening.

Ohhh... had to look that up:Synthetic Helium anyone?
liveforphysics said:You can get me a ride in a local zeplin if visited?
Amid troubled Project Wing efforts, Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) X division plans to create an online exchange named "Wing Marketplace" where people can get drone deliveries from retailers and restaurants within minutes, WSJ reports.
X would charge customers a $6 drone-delivery fee and has already met with Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFM), Domino's Pizza (NYSEPZ) and a series of other companies about the project.
Ykick said:Manned AC (aircraft) always have right of way over non-manned AC.
fechter said:Ykick said:Manned AC (aircraft) always have right of way over non-manned AC.
Hmm... try explaining that to a drone that's about to collide with you. I saw on the local news about a self-driving car from Uber that was running red lights. "You can't put a robotic car in jail" was one argument against them. But you can impound the car. Something about driver's licensing came up too and who was going to regulate it. Clearly the rules have not been thought out very well at this point.
Airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery
Abstract
Described is an airborne fulfillment center ("AFC") and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAV") to deliver items from the AFC to users. For example, the AFC may be an airship that remains at a high altitude (e.g., 45,000 feet) and UAVs with ordered items may be deployed from the AFC to deliver ordered items to user designated delivery locations. As the UAVs descend, they can navigate horizontally toward a user specified delivery location using little to no power, other than to stabilize the UAV and/or guide the direction of descent. Shuttles (smaller airships) may be used to replenish the AFC with inventory, UAVs, supplies, fuel, etc. Likewise, the shuttles may be utilized to transport workers to and from the AFC.
The electric-powered drone has been in development since 2014, and now it really works. The Army still has ambitious development goals. Eventually, it'd like the drone to be able to fly low to the ground at 60 miles an hour to be able to deliver supply orders within 30 minutes. The Army said Tuesday that it will also look at hybrid forms of power to see if they can extend the range of the JTARV -- also called a hoverbike -- to 125 miles while carrying an impressive 800 pounds.
For the first time under the FAA's commercial drone rules, the agency has granted permission to operate a drone at an airport.
Seven flights were conducted by 3D Robotics on Jan. 10 at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, the busiest airport in the world.
Innocorp has a new drone that is a flying submarine. It is an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drone and iot can transitio from water to air to land without any individual or multiple deployments, fission of elements, (as in rockets), or complicated maneuvering.