When I was sailing with a friend in the Bahamas we saw one of those radar aerostats tethered by a communications building in Georgetown Exuma. This was in the late 90's and low flying aircraft was a popular way of importing drugs.
I recall a radar aerostat coming loose in Virginia. It finally landed on Pennsylvania:
<https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/jlens-aerostat-comes-loose-from-tether-moves-towards-pa>
Mike N2MS
> On 11/13/2023 10:52 AM EST Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> We had a lot of ground wind that day, not gusting but was some wind. All these little drones somehow take this into account and have the ability to be placed at a point in the air and will not move, have no idea how they do that in an environment that’s always moving. Many years ago did a lot of stuff with airships called “Aerostats” where they were equipped with a surface facing radar, transmitter and small gasoline generator to power all that stuff. Would launch them to between three to five hundred feet and they provided a fun way of watching what was going on below.
> We kept them on station with a tether and truck.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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