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The article reports on the re-opening of Hangar No. 6 at the Naval Air Engineering Center in Lakehurst, New Jersey. A shop was established by a crew from Piasecki Aircraft Corp. at the hangar and filled U.S. Navy surplus gasbag ZPG2 for the first time in 20 years. The initiative is part of a 25 million U.S. dollar plan to float a new type of hovering aircraft that would be able to hoist and transport heavy objects.

Focuses on the development plan in Hackensack Meadowlands in New Jersey. Features of the project; Previous reputation of the area; Potential economic benefits of the plan; Comment by Larry Schmidt, director of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Program Coordination, Policy and Planning.