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E-Green Technologies - 21st Century Airships, Inc. Hires Allan P. Judd as Chief Test Pilot May 11, 2010 11:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time MONTGOMERY, Ala.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--E-Green Technologies (EGT) - 21st Century Airships, the leading developers of state-of-the-art technologies for mid, high altitude and heavy-lift airships, announced today that it has hired Allan P. Judd to be their Chief Test Pilot. Captain Judd has been involved in aviation since 1966 and with Airships over the last 23 years. He received his Oceanographic Technology Degree from the Florida Institute of Technology Jensen Beach Campus in 1976. In 1986, he climbed aboard an Airship that had just begun operations and he instantly knew what he would do for the rest of his life. He spent 2 years with Airships Pacific, finishing as their Company Chief Pilot when the parent company sold all of their equipment to a US company interested in their machines. Hired by the new company, he returned to the US in 1989 to continue piloting these Airships, touring the US for many high visibility Clients, while making his home in Florida. Since this time, he completed the FAA Pilot Examiner Standardization Course and was entrusted with the position of FAA Designated Pilot Examiner on Lighter-Than-Air Airships for a period of seven years. After 20 years operating in the US, he now joins E-Green Technologies to assist in the Flight Test Program and Field Operations Development for all their upcoming new designs. “Because our airships are a considerable advancement in airship technology from anything that has ever existed we felt we needed a top flight chief test pilot that had the experience and skills to guide these ships to market,” explains E-Green Technologies Chairman and CEO, Michael Lawson. The Bullet 580 is a multifunctional airship intended to serve as a dedicated near-space satellite for communications relays, broadcast communications, missile defense warning, airspace/maritime surveillance and control, position and navigation (GPS), weather monitoring, battlefield environmental monitoring, electronic countermeasures, and weapons platforms as well as geophysical surveys. The 235-foot Bullet 580 is designed to carry a payload of up to 1,000 pounds at 20,000 feet and fly at speeds up to 70 knots with a cruising speed 30 to 35 knots. The companies, who merged late last year, have already successfully built and flown 14 prototypes in order to test new inventions, but the Bullet 580 is the first airship to be put into production for commercial use. EGT has planned an inflation test of the Bullet 580 Airship May 19, 2010 at the Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, Alabama and all credentialed media is invited to attend. The first test flights will take place in the summer of 2010 and Judd will pilot these flights. About E-Green Technologieswww.e-greentechnologies.com E-Green Technologies, Inc. specializes in the development, construction and marketing of manned and unmanned helium-filled airships for advertising, defense, mining, telecommunications, transportation, and multiple markets globally that can benefit from vertical airship flight operations. Contacts for E-Green Technologies Ian Murphy, 310-689-6397 murphian@gmail.com Permalink: http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100511006644/en/Airship/Heavy-Lift/High-Altitude
