[Scan-DC] Airship [blimp] over downtown DC

[Jonathan Moore]

Defense Department testing blimp system:

Throughout the week, the 178-foot-long blimp will conduct tests designed to 
determine how effective electro-optical and infrared cameras are at 
detecting potentially threatening movements on the ground. (Tom Kennedy - 
washingtonpost.com)

Jon

>From: Sheldon Daitch <sdaitch at ibb.gov>
>To: dc2wheel <dc2wheel at yahoo.com>
>CC: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Airship [blimp] over downtown DC
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:38:26 -0400
>
>There was a piece in the Wash Post the other day, and if
>I recall correctly, it was a US Army Corps of Engineers
>contract aircraft being used as a very stable photo platform
>for security related building photos.
>
>
>
>dc2wheel wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know who's blimp that is/was over downtown
> > around 9:30am?  No advertising on it, so I think it
> > may be .mil or homeland security.  Scanning the
> > mil-air bands/CAP for a few minutes didn't turn up
> > anything.
> > -dc2wheel
> >
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Jonathan Moore, BA, FF/EMT-P
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