Notable mentions here include the semi-rigid Zeppelin NT, the hybrid Airlander 10, and more recently LTA’s rigid Pathfinder 1, which as the name suggests is a pathfinder airship. Of these the ...

The airship "floated silently" from its ... It took 10 years, fraught with "blood, sweat, and tears", to create Pathfinder 1, which its creator, LTA Research, hopes will "kickstart a new era ...

LTA, which got its start in 2016, is backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and on a mission to develop zero-carbon airships. At 400-feet in length, Pathfinder 1 has the potential to transport ...

Today, they’re where LTA is building the descendant of those behemoths, Pathfinder 1. The Graf Zeppelin was 776 feet long. Even non-rigid airships could be enormous, according to Wichita State ...

In 2023, the largest modern airship, the Pathfinder 1 prototype electric airship built by LTA Research, was unveiled. The aircraft is a proof-of-concept airship built in California's Silicon ...