High-tech airship floats to future
Firm says craft, now prototype, will hold most cargo ever
Posted: February 4, 2013 at 3:11 a.m.
Work is almost done on a 230-foot, rigid airship inside a blimp hangar at a former military base in Orange County, Calif. The Aeroscraft airship, designed to carry cargo, has a shiny, aluminum skin and an aluminum and carbon-fiber skeleton.
The huge, blimplike aircraft flies but just barely, hovering about a dozen feet above the floor of a military hangar during flight testing south of Los Angeles.
Electrical engineer Varoujan Sarkissuan (left) and aerospace engineer Munir Jojo-Verge chat in the cockpit of the Aeroscraft ...
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