And the business of the airfield's new owner, CargoLifter, is the development of giant airships, a means of transport few have taken seriously since the Hindenburg went up in flames in 1937.The time-warp feeling ends when a gigantic space-age dome, 360 metres long and 107 metres high, comes into view.
As just another tatty marquee in a jumbled landscape of peaked tents and ageing geodesic domes, the former Serpentine pavilion is barely recognisable as the futuristic origami structure that landed in Kensington Gardens in 2000.
While CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman marvels at the age of the dome teams, WSJ.com tells the story of economists who decided the pressing issue of their day was how much the Vikings are worth to their fans.
The hardest task, he believes, is convincing techno-savvy 18-25 agroupoup that the Dome will have something to offer them.
The crater size frequency distribution (CSFD) is applied to determine the age of the particular dome and also the surrounding mare surface so as to better construct a stratigraphic correlation.
Ms. Nelkin said she became enamored with domes at age 8.
(For now, the historic Capitol, with its grand dome and aging interior, is not for sale, though state officials continue to ponder the possibility).
There is more: Craig Kauffman's bright rectangles from 1968 of vacuum-formed plexiglass; Helen Pashgian's early '60s space-age cast-resin domes; and an entire corner of cast-resin works by DeWain Valentine that play with shimmery, New Age geometry.
By 1874, in Boston's gilded age, the Commonwealth covered the dome in gold leaf.
Weather and plain old age have left the Capitol dome with more than 1,000 cracks and deficiencies like stains and rust, the architect of the Capitol said in a statement on Tuesday.
In German domes, when relative age of the internal layers can be deciphered, older material is generally in the centre of the salt mass and younger at the edges.
