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Press Coverage

Broadcast Media

National Public Radio - August 2, 2007

TV3 Springfield, MA -- Local CBS affiliate - September 20, 2007

Print Media

New York Times Magazine - December 10, 2006

Forbes Magazine - December 25, 2006

AOPA Pilot - February 2007

Flying Magazine - March 2007

Machine Design - March 2007

Boston Globe - July 2007

Rose is Rose Comic Strip - May 2007

We also wrote a two-part overview of our project that was published in Ballooning Magazine in the Spring of 2007. The March issue carried Part 1 and the May issue carried Part 2.

Online Media

EAA - December 14, 2006

AVweb - December 14, 2006

CNet News - December 29, 2006

Engadget - August 7, 2006

BoingBoing - January 20, 2007

Slashdot - December 18, 2006

Makezine - August 4, 2006

Gizmag - December 12, 2006

Gizmodo - November 17, 2006

An Amusing Side Project, Amherst Bulletin - December 28, 2007

Background Information

We have PDF versions of

- the press release that announces our first flight.

- a brief technical overview of the Personal Blimp.

Photos from First Flight
October 27, 2006

The following images were taken during the first test flights of the prototype Personal Blimp named the Airship Alberto on October 27, 2006. The flights were made in Amherst, MA. Pilot and co-builder Mike Kuehlmuss is a the controls.

Creative Commons License

All images on this page and the high resolution versions linked directly from this page are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

Please give appropriate photo credit to Robert Cann.

Click on any of the thumbnails below to access a high resolution version of each image:


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