California Blimp Vies for Record, Role in Security
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Two pilots aboard the Saturn  Lightship blimp set out from California on Monday to break an  endurance record and, they hope, reintroduce an icon of U.S.  sports culture as an instrument of national security.
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Genesis: This week over Utah, Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots will try to snag a returning spacecraft carrying solar particles. By Michael Stroh.
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Marine One helicopter is at center of one of the most contentious bidding competitions in years.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews scouring rugged terrain in Nevada for missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett are expected to press on with a high-tech search on Thursday morning.
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Fear are growing for the safety of record-breaking US pilot Steve Fossett, missing in  Nevada since Monday.
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Dominique Maniere has spent his life drifting over unfamiliar places: Norway, America, the deserts of North Africa and anywhere else airships are paid to go on slow patrol, carrying giant advertisements or powerful surveillance cameras. The white-bearded Frenchman is wrapping up a three-month job in Athens, flying a blimp for the Greek police during the Olympics as part of a massive security operation.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun.
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec.
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A Predator B unmanned aircraft, outfitted with imaging equipment that can see through smoke, is flying over Southern California to help fight the area's raging wildfires.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK    MOJAVE, Calif.  -- A test pilot in a stubby rocket plane will try to climb more than 60 miles over the Mojave Desert and punch through the atmosphere Wednesday in the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize meant to encourage space tourism...
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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A test project, now in use at Reagan National Airport, aims to give frequent fliers a quicker pass through security checkpoints by using the latest biometric technologies -- such as eye scans -- to verify a passenger's identity.
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At the closely guarded Republican National Convention, even the Fujifilm Blimp has a role in security. Fuji Photo Film USA Inc., the Valhalla, N.Y.-based U.S. arm of the Japanese film maker, is allowing the New York Police Department use of the blimp to bolster aerial patrols above Madison Square Garden.
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San Francisco officials are again  grappling with an issue as old as the Golden Gate Bridge: how  to stop people from killing themselves by jumping off the  city's most famous landmark.
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A laser beam was aimed at a police helicopter Friday &#151; one of several incidents involving aircraft across the country in the past week &#151; and federal authorities were questioning someone who had been at a house where they said the light had originated.