The Lockheed Martin Super Blimp

Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Projects is making perhaps the first realistic tests of a hybrid airship.

The Skunk Works had secretly built the craft and hoped for a quiet first flight at its Palmdale, Calif., facility, but a few passers-by noticed the strange object in the sky.

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There is some speculation this was built for Rosie Odonnell, what do you think?

its a little small for rosie

I thought it was rosie

It sure is fuggly

Could be me but flying the thing in the middle of the day with their Lockheed Martin logo on the side, it does not seem anyone was trying to keep it a secret?

But thats just me...

^^^

Like you're going to be able to hide something that big and comparatively slow in the first place?

Might as well make a billboard out of it, people will forget about it faster that way.

From information on a few other sites, it appears to be an experimental heavy-lift vehicle.

Wow . . .

Perfect replica of Rosie

Big - check

Fat - check

Lots of hot air - check

No apparent reason to exist - check

So this is what they have been spending their time on.....instead of correcting the prints for the Littoral Combat Ship.