Sentences with phrase «hybrid airship»

«Operationally, Cargolifter went totally against what we in the hybrid airship business are trying to do — that is, alleviate the need for airship infrastructure wherever the cargo is to be offloaded,» he said.

A man looks at damage to the Airlander 10 hybrid airship after a test flight at Cardington Airfield in Britain, August 24, 2016.

Boyd's team is working on a hybrid airship that harks back to century - old dirigibles.

Developers of a new generation, known as hybrid airships, are hoping to change that.

Lockheed Martin Corp. on Tuesday named a private firm, Hybrid Enterprises LLC, as the exclusive sales agent for its Hybrid Airships, a new type of aircraft that company officials say could revolutionize the way oil and mining companies haul equipment to the Arctic and other remote areas without roads.

The world has changed radically since the era of the Hindenburg; today's satellite weather forecasts, GPS - tracking, radar, computer - controlled avionics and in - flight management systems have paved the way for this new wave of hybrid airships.

Not exact matches

«But in a fully mature hybrid market, airships should replace the rest of the fixed - wing cargo fleet.»

Far safer than the Hindenburg, whose tragic 1937 docking remains an icon of aerospace gone wrong, these modern airships are a hybrid of lighter - than - air and fixed - wing aircraft.

Capable of flying far, carrying large loads and powered only by the sun, could this airship hybrid be the future of aviation?