Once symbols of luxury and innovation, airships ruled the skies—until disaster struck. Discover the rise, fall, and forgotten promise of these giant flying machines, and why they vanished from ...

Airships, which are best known today for their use as advertising blimps, have long been recognized for their potential as large, low-emissions transportation vessels that can haul huge amounts of ...

While they may seem like a bad idea, because they’re not as fast as planes or as powerful as freighters, airships actually sit in a goldilocks zone in between them.

Airships have captured science-fiction writers’ imaginations — including Kim Stanley Robinson in Ministry for the Future. We examine the tech’s utility in the real world.

More more exposure Since we published our newsletter on airships, United Airlines and other companies announced a $100 million venture-capital fund to invest in sustainable aviation fuel.

Over the next eight years, Zeppelin’s company found more funding and redesigned, tested, and built three more airships. Two of them, LZ2 and LZ4, were destroyed.

The Army said it wants designs for hybrid airships capable of transporting 40,000 pounds of cargo -- including vehicles -- at altitudes of 10,000 feet with a range of at least 1,000 nautical miles.

News Release 26-Apr-2023 How solar-powered airships could make air travel climate-friendly Research team identifies optimal flight routes for solar-powered airships Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Because airships boast such exceptional “lift-to-drag ratios”, as engineers put it, they also consume relatively little fuel. This makes them—at least in theory—ideal freight vehicles.

A new European partnership will ensure that graphene ultracapacitor technology powers the next generation of large, heavy-lift airships for industrial applications in China and France. | ...