Source: Flightglobal.com
By Beth Stevenson
Furthering its campaign to raise the required funds to bring its Airlander 10 airship to flight, Hybrid Air Vehicles has received a €2.5 million ($2.7 million) EU grant that is awarded to environmentally-friendly transport projects.
Source: The Sacramento Bee – sacbee.com
By Bill Lindelof
Look, up in the sky: It’s a new thermal airship.
Source: NASA – nasa.gov
Less than six days after launching from Wanaka, New Zealand, NASA’s massive Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) completed its first continental crossing April 1 flying over the southern tips of Chile and Argentina.
Source: San Jose Mercury News – mercurynews.com
By Matt O’Brien
Built for an age when 800-foot-long flying aircraft carriers were the cutting edge of aviation, the colossal hangars of the Moffett Federal Airfield are about to become roosts for Silicon Valley’s latest ideas.
Source: Engineering and Technology Magazine – eandt.theiet.org
By Tereza Pultarova
A company behind the world’s largest airship has launched an equity crowd-funding campaign to help raise funds to get its Airlander 10 off the ground again.