Call for Airship Stories and Artifacts for Exhibition in 2021
Airship Dreams is searching for stories and historic artifacts relating to the Golden Age of the Airship during the 1920s and 1930s, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the final flight of R101. Airship Dreams is an artistic enquiry into Bedford’s identity as the historical center of the UK’s airship industry, led by award-winning artist […]
Largest Airship Gets Production Approval
Production of the world’s largest hybrid airship will begin this year with a model designed for commercial use. UK-based manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) that created Airlander 10, has received approval from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and company officials hope that their innovative airship will take to the skies in early 2020s. Meanwhile, Airlander […]
NASA’s Future Mission to Venus — Humans in Floating Airships?
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX , and Virgin Galactic. All you […]
Museum Highlights Advances in Science and Technology by Balloonists
With an emphasis on the science, technology, engineering, and math-related contributions of world-renowned balloonists, the redesigned International Ballooning Hall of Fame at the Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, now open to the public, delves into the groundbreaking advancements and achievements of Hall of Fame inductees. The new exhibition traces the stories of inductees, beginning […]
British Airship Pioneer Inducted as Living Legend of Aviation
With an emphasis on the science, technology, engineering, and math-related contributions of world-renowned balloonists, the redesigned International Ballooning Hall of Fame at the Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, now open to the public, delves into the groundbreaking advancements and achievements of Hall of Fame inductees. The new exhibition traces the stories of inductees, beginning […]
Interview with Jerry Copas: Aviator and Author
“What’s most intriguing about the 1925 crash of USS Shenandoah, America’s first rigid airship, is that the most modern state-of-the-art flying machine of the future, fell into this rural, disconnected, unenlightened part of America. There were roads in Noble County that had not even seen an automobile before and then by the end of the day […]
A Gripping Story of America’s Great Airship
Jerry Copas adds a new dimension with powerful images. The USS Shenandoah was a 680-foot-long rigid airship and the pride of the American Navy in 1925. It was built to fly as a scouting platform for the fleet at sea. But as she proved her super flying capabilities, she was turned into a publicity tool, […]
World’s Largest Airship Achieves a Three-Hour Test Flight
The world’s largest aircraft returned to the skies since its last crash landing in August and flew for three hours today. The $33 million hybrid airship, which is part blimp, aircraft, and helicopter and is the length of a football field, took off over Bedfordshire, in England. Airlander10 makes a 3-hour flight on 10th May,2017. […]
Voliris Plans to Bring Airships to the Desert
France-based Voliris has been experimenting with airships since 2001, and in 2008, the company began an R&D program to develop hybrid airships. After numerous prototypes and attempts, the company achieved the proof of concept with the V902RC hybrid airship, which also showed success with piloted test flights. In doing so, the company landed in the […]
Experts See Red Flags in Amazon’s Patent for Floating Warehouses
Amazon is known for creating ambitious and industry-changing ideas—just consider the Kindle, Amazon Go, and its wind and solar farms—and now the company is looking to take a concept to new heights, literally. Few technical and legal questions to be solved for Amazon’s patent to become a reality A patent filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., […]
