Balloons fly high above Sri Lanka this weekend

If you happen to be in Sri Lanka this weekend, look above your head for a colourful display of balloons gracing the sky. The Sri Lanka balloon festival has started and it involves between 80 and 100 participants in about 25 different balloons. "The inaugural Sri Lanka Balloon...

Why not a banana over Texas?

"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a . . . giant banana? A 300-metre airship shaped like a banana is expected to be released in Mexico late next year and allowed to drift across the border into Texas...

Back to the future

"Lokheed Martin is currently developing a high-altitude, solar-powered airship for the Missile Defense Agency (aka "Son of Star Wars") for surveillance and communication purposes. Doesn't that sound familiar?"

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