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By Maddie Nixon, ABC News Photo Credit: A conceptual rendering of Flying Whales’ 200-metre-long airship prototype LCA60T. (Supplied: Flying Whales) Picture this. You’re in the remote desert and a giant, oblong balloon, almost the length of three Airbus A380 aircraft, hovers overhead. It descends toward the ground without the need for a runway or landing […]
By Chelsea Kemp, www.cbc.ca Photo Credit: John Woods/The Canadian Press Unseasonably warm weather impacting winter roads construction Northern Manitobans are nervously eyeing the sky and their thermometers hoping for the right conditions for winter roads to open. Ralph Harper of St. Theresa Point First Nation, Man., is watching the river in his community hoping it […]
By MARTIN CASH, Winnipeg Free Press After 10 years of research, a 125-metre- long airship took its initial flight this week out of a massive hangar in Silicon Valley. Backed by Alphabet co-founder Sergey Brin, the company, LTA (Lighter Than Air) Research, envisions using such airships for humanitarian relief. The timing of that launch in […]
By Mark Harris, https://techcrunch.com/ Photo Credit: LTA Research Sergey Brin-backed airship startup LTA Research begins flight testing today As dawn breaks over Silicon Valley, the world is getting its first look at Pathfinder 1, a prototype electric airship that its maker LTA Research hopes will kickstart a new era in climate-friendly air travel, and accelerate […]
By Long Branch Mike, www.londonreconnections.com Photo Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles Spy balloons over the US and Canada, with some being shot down, have been a major news story in recent months. But what is not in the mainstream news is the spotting of what appears to be the world’s largest airship hangar in China – […]
By Graham Warwick, Aviation Week Photo Credit: LTA Research SAN DIEGO—Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s LTA Research is preparing to begin outdoor flight tests of its Pathfinder 1 large rigid airship after getting the 120-m-long (393-ft.) technology demonstrator airborne inside Hangar 2 at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. LTA plans initial flights of the electric-powered […]
By Lindsay Kelly, www.nwonewswatch.com Photo Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles Online panel weighs benefits of innovative tech to lower freight costs, create more equitable access to health care. In addressing some of remote Canada’s most pressing issues — unreliable transportation, the high cost of goods, inadequate housing — there’s growing support behind airships as a viable […]
Rebecca Cairns, CNN The smooth, white underbelly of the airborne whale sails across the sky, casting a shadow across the forest below. Other than its enormous size, though, this “whale” has very little to do with its animal namesake. It’s an airship, and French aeronautics company Flying Whales hopes its hybrid-electric, helium-lift vessel will change […]
This commentary by Barry Prentice examines the viability of cargo airships to address the northern transportation puzzle. By Barry Prentice ~ macdonaldlaurier.ca “If cargo airships are such a good idea for the North, why aren’t the skies filled with them?” This question was posed to me by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute a few months ago. It […]
Airships could offer a much cleaner and quieter alternative for some aspects of the aviation market. In a former airship factory, a new generation are taking shape. By Mark Piesing ~ BBC.com Sergey Brin turned internet search into one of the world’s most valuable businesses more than two decades ago. Now he intends to improve […]
