T he age of the airship is back, kind of. On 15 May, startup LTA Research flew its Pathfinder 1 airship outside Silicon ...

A century ago, zeppelin passengers soared across the Atlantic Ocean in luxurious gondolas hanging from humongous hydrogen-filled balloons — the biggest aircraft humanity has ever built.

NEARLY a century after zeppelins were largely abandoned, a handful of start-ups are trying to revive the airship for both ...

In an era of “green" gimmicks and sky-high risk, author John J. Geoghegan says only capitalism can determine if ...

Nearly a century after the Hindenburg, a new generation of airship companies says they have a greener alternative for tourism and cargo flights.

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 ...

Pathfinder 1, backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, marks a bold step in airship innovation. On October 24, 2024, LTA Research announced the airship’s first untethered flight at NASA’s ...

In it Google co-founder Sergey Brin's airship company LTA Research finally announced Pathfinder 1's first if brief untethered flight at Nasa's Moffett Field in California, part of the space agency ...

a prototype electric airship that is currently being tested out of Moffett Field in Mountain View. Photo: Alex Baker The Pathfinder 1 is an experimental blimp built by LTA Research. It has 12 ...

Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Game Director and Co-Founder of Airship Syndicate Steve Madureira ... about what it took to reach version 1.0, the new Crucible content, the ...