On 9/3/03 7:30 AM, in article , "Leanne"
wrote:

The last time we were in Key West there was a tethered blimp one or two keys
up
from there that was supposed to be looking towards the south for druggies...


"Ron" wrote in message
ink.net...
It seems like not that long ago, the DOD was looking to blimps as a weapon
in the war on drugs. Whatever happened to that idea? ISTR something about
a blimp tethered at Ft. Huachuca, AZ designed to peer over the Mexican
border and....???... see drugs??? ...or something.



I can think of three off the top of my head...

There are two on the U.S. southern border with Mexico that are high up. In
fact, on EGPWS, they register as obstacles.

There is another (as the previous poster mentioned) in Key West which they
reel in and out occasionally.

--Woody