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Pathfinder 1: The Airship That Could Usher in a New Age
Pathfinder 1, bankrolled by a Google billionaire, is an attempt to revive the airship. A century after terrifying disasters, is it a safe-enough bet?
Rigid airships have a complex metal framework that supports a huge envelope filled with enough hydrogen or helium to lift a sizeable number of passengers, or cargo such as disaster relief, for days at a time. That it has occurred at a time when high-profile airship companies such as Flying Whales" appear to be struggling to… build a flagship production facility" is a good morale boost for the sector, says Shrimpton. The knowledge and skills of the great engineers of the past had to be relearned by LTA – together with the latest research and technology – in order to design the airship and work out how to mass produce even larger craft in the future.
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