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Tethered to the ground from almost 2 miles up? I'd imagine this would require a decent sized exclusion zone for air traffic.

Also, there's always going to be some wind aloft pulling the blimp away from its anchor. It would be interesting to see a risk assessment for the land immediately surrounding the anchor point given the worst case of the cable separating from its attachment point on the blimp.





Ah, the sectional I was viewing on flightaware.net didn't show that note. I was just reading[1] how a similar aerostat is flown from Cudjoe Key, Florida by the DEA. That one appears to be marked in its own 4 mile wide zone.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Key,_Florida

[2]: http://skyvector.com/?ll=24.664298,-81.482339&chart=301&zoom...




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