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September 7, 2011 10:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ManJQ5_HRu4/Airship-Company-Gets-First-Civilian-Customer
Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer
Zothecula writes "Hybrid Air Vehicles has recently achieved two massive commercial wins that seem to indicate that the airship has a very rosy future indeed. The aircraft's versatility plus an ability to stay airborne for 21 days enabled HAV to win a 517million contract (€370million) to supply a Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) to the U.S. Army for deployment in Afghanistan starting in 2012. Whilst the LEMV is a relatively small vehicle designed for surveillance, HAV has now announced a civil customer for their heavy-lift variant."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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