Hacker News with Generative AI: Airships

'The flying bum': can a UK firm making airships get off the ground? (theguardian.com)
Airlander maker HAV scales up to build world’s biggest aircraft, which it says will have 90% lower emissions than a conventional plane

Airships, Transportation, Sustainability, Innovation, UK

9 points by n1b0m 12 days ago | 0 comments

Pathfinder 1: The Airship That Could Usher in a New Age (bbc.com)
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?

Airships, Technology, Transportation, History

39 points by andrewl 19 days ago | 59 comments

Cargo Airships Are Happening (elidourado.com)
Last year, I published an article on airships. The article was the fruit of a few years’ exploration of the industry. I spoke to multiple airship manufacturers under NDA. I traded ideas with other cargo airship enthusiasts. And ultimately, along with my friends Ian McKay and Matt Sattler, I hired an engineer to develop new data on a 500-ton cargo airship.

Airships, Cargo Shipping, Transportation, Innovation

222 points by elidourado 145 days ago | 299 comments