Solar Ship Challenges Lockheed Martin to a Race Across Northern Canada and Africa
Earlier this week, Solar Ship announced it is challenging Lockheed Martin to a race between its solar powered Wolverine aircraft and Lockheed Martin’s hybrid airship. Solar Ship; Credit: Solar Ship The purpose of the challenge is to promote the benefits of hybrid aircraft which use two forms of lift: buoyancy like an airship and dynamic lift […]
Flying the Flag for an Airship Revolution
Earlier this week, Solar Ship announced it is challenging Lockheed Martin to a race between its solar powered Wolverine aircraft and Lockheed Martin’s hybrid airship. Solar Ship; Credit: Solar Ship The purpose of the challenge is to promote the benefits of hybrid aircraft which use two forms of lift: buoyancy like an airship and dynamic lift […]
Largest Aircraft Crash Lands—Slowly and Gently
Just one week after its historic first test flight, the hybrid airship Airlander 10 is in the news again, for crash landing on its second test flight. Airlander 10 attempts to land on second test flight. Screenshot by author from SciNews video After a 100-minute flight, the 302-foot long aircraft slowly nosedived, landing on its […]
Helium-filled Airship, the Largest Aircraft, Makes Historic First Flight
17Aug.2016,Bedfordshire,UK—The world’s largest and futuristic aircraft, as tall as a nine-story building and almost the length and breadth of a football field, rose slowly but majestically over the Cardington airfield in central England at 7:40 p.m. Airlander10 during take off for first flight from Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, UK, 17 August 2016; Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles […]
Return of the Airship
Airlander10, the Hybrid Airship-Fin Being Attached; Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles In few fiery seconds, the era of the passenger airship had come to an end when the Hindenburg burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey on 6th May 1937. The leviathan airship, inflated with flammable hydrogen, had taken off from Frankfurt, Germany and was on […]
Lockheed Martin Signs Contract to Sell 12 Airships at $480 Million
Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airship, called LMH1, is designed to carry cargo and personnel over long distances. The Airship enters the market in 2018. Credit: Lockheed Martin. Measuring 300 feet long and almost 80 feet high, the football stadium-sized airship is filled with helium, which is a nonflammable gas. It can carry 47,000 pounds of cargo […]
