Earlier this fall, a California startup embarked on a test flight of its new airship. Flown with the help of 13 helium bags, a dozen electric motors and four fin rudders, "Pathfinder 1" exited its ...

Fact of the matter is, commercially viable airships simply aren’t possible at this scale. Even with a much more efficient traditional envelope design, they need to be much, much, much larger to ...

Airships. Slow, difficult to land, and highly flammable when they’re full of hydrogen. These days, they’re considered more of a historical curiosity rather than a useful method of transport.

It was 100 years ago this week – way back in 1924, in the thick of the early roaring days of aviation history – when a giant U.S. Navy airship visited the Puget Sound and took the population ...

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THE very word airship implies a craft that will * plow the air, much as a large ship plows the sea. From the beginning, the principles of marine navigation have governed the design of dirigible ...

To solve these challenges, mobile-first customer experience company Airship today announced that all of its Experience Platform capabilities developed for apps are now available on the web.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Airship, a company that provides software tools and financial products to help home services owner-operators grow their businesses, today came out of stealth with the ...

It descends toward the ground without the need for a runway or landing pad, cargo is emptied onto the surface below, the airship ascends as high as 3,000 metres and jets off into the outback horizon.

Postcards celebrating the night a German airship was shot down. Britain was attacked from the sky for the first time, early in 1915. No one expected air raids, so when German airships first flew ...

As the aviation industry faces scrutiny for its carbon footprint, airships are being reconsidered as a sustainable alternative. Though once sidelined by airplanes, these lighter-than-air crafts ...