AN advanced airship fleet meant to save lives and more has been in the works by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and they are almost ready for take-off.
Brin’s lowkey project has been building the next generation of airships that he wants to ensure are bigger and better than ever.
The Google co-founders established a company called Lighter Than Air Research (LTA) back in 2016 to develop the airships and it has been moving in silence since.
Now, Brin is ready to unveil the ‘Pathfinder 1” which is the first of LTA’s creations, per Bloomberg.
The airships may be used to transport cargo or assist during humanitarian relief missions.
Along with delivering supplies to disaster zones in an environmentally friendly way as they are helium-powered and extra-large.
The Pathfinder 1 is 400 feet long and has a 65 ft diameter.
LTA intends for the fleet of airships to be “sky-darkening” due to their enormous size.
The airships are set to be very large with the capability of holding tons of cargo.
“Welcome to LTA: Where we are going to darken the skies,” Alan Weston the chief executive officer of LTA Research & Exploration LLC told Bloomberg Thursday.
Source: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/8211908/google-sergey-brin-airship-fleet-pathfinder-cargo/