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Message started by Webb on Feb 14th, 2013 at 11:37pm

Title: Fat Albert is coming down
Post by Webb on Feb 14th, 2013 at 11:37pm

Fat Albert

Drug-tracking Fat Albert blimp in the Keys will be deflated in March


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Fat Albert, the familiar military blimp based on the bayside of Cudjoe Key, is set to come down permanently on March 15 after keeping watch over the Lower Keys since 1980.

Due to federal defense funding cuts, the U.S. Air Force's Tethered Aerostat Radar System, comprising Cudjoe and eight other sites along the Gulf of Mexico, Mexican border and Puerto Rico, will shut down ...

Fat Albert was a landmark, telling me "you're almost in Key West".  He's still in FS - just take off from KEYW runway 9 and fly low up the Florida Keys.

Title: Re: Fat Albert is coming down
Post by expat on Feb 15th, 2013 at 2:40am
I bet the drug runners will be laughing all the way to the bank. Seems like a shot in the foot if you ask me  :-/.....But then, no one is likely to anyway....... ;D

Matt

Title: Re: Fat Albert is coming down
Post by DaveSims on Feb 15th, 2013 at 5:19pm
There was just a story a couple of weeks ago about these types of systems being deployed around Washington, D.C.

Title: Re: Fat Albert is coming down
Post by H on Feb 16th, 2013 at 2:47am
Sort of like his last gasp?


8-)

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