ORCA MicroAirship Project Progress and Timeline


Work to date (as of August, '96)-

-Project documentation undertaken in draft.
-Blimp envelope builder's instructions written for Web.
-Provision of Mylar and assistantence to Dr. Canny, Berkeley CS, and  
Brooks Coleman.
-Propulsion consultation with electric airplane guru, George Parks.
-Eight microblimp related pages created.
-Construction begun on Propulsion Nacelles.
-Research progress on various fronts; physical configuration,  
video/control communications, balloonet/water ballast altitude  
control, propulsion, avionics, etc..
-Mark IV envelope reallocated to helilifter blimp. HPMB to have new  
envelope.

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