Flying Whales, a company backed by the French government, has just announced another $137 million of funding and has started construction of the assembly line for its LCA60T rigid airship.

Rigid airships are making a comeback ... "That we need to have a new mobility - a green mobility." Construction on the Solar Airship One will begin in 2024, with assembly scheduled for the ...

Say goodbye to the old fleet of Goodyear blimps and hello to the new fleet, which has started construction – only this time the “blimps” are actually zeppelins, or semi-rigid airships with ...

Composites enable next-generation rigid airship design. LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1, its first full-scale, electric-powered prototype airship, is shown here during construction in Mountain View, Calif ...

The final results showed that solar airships, designed with a rigid construction to withstand winds, could drastically reduce the emissions of cargo transport to as little as one percent compared ...

The rigid airship will be powered during the ... that it has been at work on for three years. In 2024, Euro Airship begins construction of Solar Airship One, and in 2025, the final assembly.

AMONG the important papers read last week at the Institution of Naval Architects was one on airship construction by Mr ... Particulars of three non-rigid airships are given in the paper, having ...

The USS Akron and USS Macon were “rigid airships” that served the U.S. Navy. Construction started in 1929. With a three-keel design, the Akron-class dirigibles had a better framework than the ...