You will enjoy this short video of the U.S. Army’s new surveillance dirigible – the LEMV.
Airships have a certain romance to them. To paraphrase Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, airships hang there in the sky just the way that bricks don’t.
Jet aircraft are very expensive to operate per hour of flight time. Airships are less expensive. Unfortunately, I was not able to determine just how much less expensive they are, but when I find out, that information will make its way into a future post. As I mentioned in a previous post, an F/A-18 costs about $20,000 an hour to fly.
Marc De Santis
Consolidated Pop Culture 
When you say $20,000 an hour to fly, does that cover everything from fuel to the computing power to keep the jet in the air?