Getting In On The Top Floor!

[Flanders]

If I was a youngster this would be the future for a good career:

The airship, filled mostly with helium, can carry 20 tons of cargo, but can be scaled to roughly the size of a football field with 500 tons of capacity. The exact dimension have not yet been given.

Earlier this year, Lockheed Martin partnered with sales firm Hybrid Enterprises to market its new LMH1 hybrid airship.


Lockheed’s airship gets the green light​

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[Mac1958]

Holy crap, cool.

Applications:

It's hoped that airships will change the way oil and mining companies haul equipment to remote areas, such as the Arctic, without roads or infrastructure, enabling affordable delivery of heavy cargo and personnel.

But it could also be used for military applications. 'If a military customer was interested, we would do all we can to facilitate that,' Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed Martin's executive vice-president of hybrid enterprises told reporters at the Paris Air Show.

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