JP Aerospace update on Ascender airship

JP Aerospace makes progress on their latest Ascender airship prototype: Ascender 26 – JPA Blog –

The Ascender 26 airship is moving forward in leaps. We’ve built a external stiffener frame out of carbon tubing. We did an inflation last weekend to verify it’s position.

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And Building Away – JPA Blog –

Last night we continued sewing frame sleeves on the Ascender 26. The team also repackaged our main flight controller into the Ascender 26 configuration. We did two shock tube firings, both at mach 2.2 and lastly we flipped over the submarine in order to mount the magnetic drop weight system.