Los Angeles-based Aeros Corporation is developing an electric variable buoyancy cargo airship (eVBA) called the “.” ...

The rest of the left is generated aerodynamically by air passing over the eliptical shape of the airship’s body. This lift can also be further augmented by two diesel-powered ducted fans on the ...

Rather than the cigar or American football shapes of past airships and blimps, the AirLander looks more like a pillow. A radically different design, it’s a lifting body—and heavier than air.

Windage may make this a viable option sometimes – usually you have a pointy rugby ball sort of shape to your airship to get ‘good’ aerodynamic performance in the direction you want to go ...

has made Colting adept at delivering an Airship 101 lesson. All airships, regardless of shape, get their lift by carrying a lighter-than-air gas, usually helium. As an airship rises, the helium ...

We haven’t seen airships in our skies since the days of the Hindenburg disaster – a German airship that caught fire in the skies over New Jersey. But has airship technology matured?