Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines (rbth.ru)
By: Svetlana Sibina, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Special design cargo airships are being allocated for the delivery of freights across isolated Russian regions
By Mary Grady, Contributing editor
Lockheed Martin has been at work on a giant high-lift hybrid airship since at least 2005, and the company now is moving toward certification and first delivery as soon as next year. Continue reading
By Bryony Jones, CNN
Once upon a time, the airship was hailed as the future of flight: as glamorous, luxurious and fashionable as the Art Deco era which marked its heyday.
By Mary Grady, Contributing editor AVweb.com
In the far northeast corner of the U.S., near the small town of Caribou, Maine, cluster-balloon pilot Jonathan Trappe is getting ready to fly his unusual lighter-than-air system across the Atlantic. Continue reading
By Nick Perry and Martha Mendoza
Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand’s South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online. Continue reading