Zhejiang Airspace Integration Low-Altitude Industry Development Company just placed an order of 18 AS700 manned airships from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) last November 18. This deal, one of the largest modern acquisitions of manned lighter-than-air vehicles, marks a milestone in China’s air travel industry. CleanTechnica picked up … [continued]
Last year’s commercial introduction of the locally-developed manned airship, the AS700, was the start of what China calls its low-altitude economy. America calls it the blimp economy. News agency Xinhua reported how the ten-seater airship was first delivered by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to Guangxi Guilin Ark … [continued]
Everything old is new again, as Hybrid Air Vehicles says it is looking to start production of its Airlander 10 blimp soon.
The Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) has been an elusive ISR goal for the Department of Defense through numerous false starts and half-completed contracts, but on August 7th at 6:49 pm EST a new LEMV hybrid blimp first took to the air at Lakehurst Navel air station in NJ. The vehicle is based upon a design by Hybrid Air Vehicles, LTD, and developed by Northrop Grumman. Many new considerations have come into the design of this airship but there are some old myths to be dispelled as well. […]
[social_buttons] “Helium-powered ships could be carrying freight – and even passengers – in as little as a decade’s time,” Juliette Jowit of the Guardian reports. One of the world’s leading scientists, the UK’s former chief scientific adviser Professor Sir David King, told attendees at the World Forum on Enterprise and … [continued]
A Spanish company called Turtle Airships is working on plans to build a luxurious solar-powered blimp which can take passengers from New York to Paris. Perhaps the only thing cooler than being powered by lightweight photovoltaic cells, this airship is also designed to rest on land or water. The first … [continued]
