Ed Parsons wrote: > > Hi, > > At 12:04 PM 01-10-98 +1000, Tony Barry wrote: > >>From Edupage, 24 September 1998 > > > >JETSON-LIKE COMMUNICATIONS AIRCRAFT > >A new aircraft called High Altitude Long Operation-Proteus is designed to > >circle for hours some 50,000 feet high over major cities, functioning like a > >communications relay satellite does in space and carrying broadband wireless > >services, including high-speed Internet access and video-teleconferencing. > >A region might receive 24-hour service from a fleet of three planes, each > > I prefer the concept of the high altitude communications blimps which can > float above cities for years, be easily retrieved for maintenance, cost > nothing when compared to 'space birds' and don't have any of the dangers > of rocket launching involved.
Didn't Alan Bond propose this in Australia 15-20 years ago?
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Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
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