Everywhere, the return of the airship kept being the almost return of the airship.
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A few of the airship engineers I talked to lamented the fact that, until 1999, when a compilation entitled "Airship Technology" was published, the only textbook available to them on airship engineering was Charles B. Burgess's "Airship Design," which came out in 20133.
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Lockheed Martin's Hybrid Airship combines the upsides of the airship with the ability of a hovercraft.
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Earn an airship in a flying game, and that airship can float inside your Oculus Home when you're done playing.
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What's still unclear is who will receive the delivery; the enthusiasm of airship builders has so far not translated into airship buyers.
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Formerly known as Urban Airship, the more concisely named Airship has built a platform for companies to manage their customer communication across SMS, push notifications, email, mobile wallets and more.
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Now, Lockheed Martin thinks it can make people stop laughing with its Hybrid Airship, a new sort of aircraft that combines the upsides of the airship with the abilities of a hovercraft.
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He saw old photographs of imposing wartime zeppelins and read about another kind of airship, which had never made it off the drawing board: an airship that carried not passengers but cargo.
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The airship took its first test flight in 2016, successfully taking off, turning, and landing, but its second test flight wasn't so successful, as the airship crashed into a field, damaging the cockpit.
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Urban Airship has raised $25 million in Series F funding.
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A miniature airship on the desk adds to the ambiance.
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The airship gondola further serves as the baroness's dressing room.
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As such, the airship won't be repaired and returned to service.
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Airship makers say they could run that route for C$1.07.
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It was the first American airship to be allowed into Havana.
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Under lease from NASA, Google has operated Ames as experimental laboratories since 2015, but the airship Brin the airship Brin is building in one isn't said to be an Alphabet project, according to the Bloomberg report.
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The helium-filled airship briefly flew for the first time on Aug.
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Watch if you wish "Children's Hospital" was set on a doomed airship.
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It took two hundred and fifty thousand cows to make one airship.
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Every airship engineer I talked to asked me to disregard the Hindenburg.
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The Self-Propelled Instrument for Airship Damage Evaluation and Repair, known as Spider, is designed to work with Lockheed's new hybrid airship, which is essentially a giant blimp designed to move heavy cargo into areas without proper roads.
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In high school, he formed an airship club and was invited to present his designs to a gathering of aerospace engineers in Moscow; at Lviv National University, where he studied civil engineering, he established an airship-design bureau.
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Eventually, he invented a system he called COSH, for "control of static heaviness," based on an obvious principle: a helium-filled airship goes up, so an airship filled with air (which is heavier than helium) should go down.
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The Hybrid Airship is a project more than a decade in the making.
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"Most startups definitely can't do this," Airship co-founder Alvin Yap tells TechCrunch.
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But when the fledgling airship team showed him some drawings he was hooked.
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And Mr. Brin is building an airship in a hangar near Google's headquarters.
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A rigid airship with a true buoyancy-control system was the total package.
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With COSH, helium is compressed and sent to storage tanks inside the airship.
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There's a renovated airship in the Scottish Highlands that's available for rent through Airbnb.
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The French government recently backed a project to build an airship called the LCA60T.
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Urban Airship was also touting the changes earlier this week, via a press release.
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Brin's airship was originally slated to be powered by hydrogen, according to the sources.
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Vocations Taylor Deen, 31, is a senior airship pilot for Goodyear in Carson, Calif.
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In August 2016, the airship crashed after taking off from RAF Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire.
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First delivery is scheduled for 2018, with the final airship expected no later than 2021.
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We follow Allumette through a flashback as she rides the skies in her mother's airship.
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All of the airship designers I met had, at some point, experienced a similar awakening.
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That day, the airship was filled with air, as is typical for routine maintenance checks.
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Hybrid Air Vehicle's Airlander aircraft, pictured here in an airship shed in Cardington, England, in 103.
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Hybrid Air Vehicles said that it has also improved the ground system where the airship moors.
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Pimp My Airship by Maurice Broaddus Maurice Broaddus isn't just releasing a story on Serial Box.
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They fled the scene -- but cops tracked them down using an airship and arrested both men.
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It would be interesting to know whether the nervous flyer would opt for an airship today.
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"More witnesses = Hindenburg," Mr. Holmes wrote Wednesday on Twitter, showing a picture of the flaming airship.
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Merely creating a prototype of a cargo airship required enormous capital, and prospective buyers were scarce.
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"Because a Goodyear Semirigid Dirigible doesn't roll off the tongue," said company airship historian Eddie Ogden.
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Here's what I can say about Darksiders Genesis, the new game from Airship Syndicate: It's serviceable.
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A helium-filled airship is much quieter than a jet, meaning it could operate around the clock.
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Several airship designers told me that rigid designs like Pasternak's are expensive, heavy, and considered old-school.
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It even patented a floating airship warehouse that could act as a base of operations for drone deliveries.
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I'm just going to meet with a bunch of artists, who will probably be glad-- the airship shook.
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Cool originally came to Lockheed as a potential customer for the company's new Hybrid Airship, called the LMH2400.
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It appears to be the same one lifted away by the airship at the end of episode two.
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No more big-nosed beagle in the flight cap and goggles chasing the Red Baron on Metlife's airship.
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Boyd again invited me to punch the airship, so I made a fist and gave it a jab.
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Google-backed Planetary Ventures gained control over the hangars at Ames as part of the 2015 lease of the property from NASA, but Brin reportedly caught the airship bug around three years ago after checking out photos of the Hangar 2's previous tenant, the US Navy's USS Macon airship.
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Altogether, Urban Airship said it's now delivered more than two trillion messages, doubling the number from a year ago.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is secretly building his own giant airship inside a NASA hangar, Bloomberg reports today.
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A flying symbol of pride for Nazi Germany, the Hindenburg was the biggest and most elaborate airship ever built.
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The airship could also be used as a giant advertising board, allowing customers to order the items on display.
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Privately owned Hybrid Air Vehicles denied a report on the BBC that the airship had hit a telegraph pole.
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And Brin has been reportedly building an entire flying airship at a NASA research center near Mountain View, California.
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Of course, the entire airship is decorated with Goodyear's iconic blue and yellow, as well as with football memorabilia.
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The world needs an airship that can do its job without thick ropes, a water truck, or anything else.
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He was 234 and traveling with his family when the German airship caught fire and crashed in New Jersey.
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Recently, inside one of them, Bob Boyd showed me a puffy white airship the size of a dairy barn.
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According to Lockheed Martin, for example, their Hybrid Airship burns one tenth the fuel of a helicopter per ton.
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If you're planning a getaway to Scotland soon, you could stay in an airship that's available for rent through Airbnb.
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In December, The Verge reported that Amazon filed a patent for a flying airship warehouse designed to expedite drone deliveries.
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Embraer has given the Lineage 1000 aircraft with this feature the "Kyoto Airship," and the price starts at $53 million.
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The world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crashed and suffered damage on its second test flight on Wednesday.
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Lockheed Martin has landed its first contract for the hybrid airship it created inside its top secret Skunk Works division.
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Worlds Adrift features pirates tasked with building an airship, recruiting crew and taking control of skies dotted with floating islands.
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You can book the AirShip 2 for $11 per night between October 24-26, 2019 and November 21-23, 2019.
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One section focuses on the first downing of a German airship over Britain, which killed 16 crewmen, in September 1916.
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Last March, the U.S. House of Representatives set up the bipartisan Cargo Airship Caucus, with the goal of accelerating development.
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Her father was the owner and chief executive of Airship Management Services in Greenwich, a company that designed and operated blimps.
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Story at a glance When the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg airship went down in flames in 1937, the zeppelin industry did too.
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Amazingly it could, culminating in "See How They Fly," a mind-bending, gravity-defying finale that successfully landed this improbable airship.
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Amelia is a bubbly nature video blogger who travels the world in an airship, documenting the fragile nature of the world's biosphere.
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He has since partnered with University of Wollongong, which featured a team working on Project Airship, a low-cost shark monitoring program.
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The story follows a mother and her daughter as they arrive aboard their airship to a city made up of floating islands.
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In May 1937, on its first flight to the US that year, the airship crew rushed its landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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I mean, my god, BJ his kills his abusive father and is immediately attacked by a giant, tentacle-operating, monologuing Nazi airship.
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Located on an island in Scotland, the AirShip 2 looks like it would fare just fine if it were launched into orbit.
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Two airline pilots in Southeast Asia abandoned airship after hearing they had potential coronavirus-infected passengers aboard -- and their escape is bonkers.
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In fact, all of the leading prototypes in the race to bring back the airship are chimerical combinations of the same technologies.
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"When we first started this, there was a lot of giggle factor," Bob Boyd, the program manager for Lockheed's airship, told me.
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"Because a Goodyear Semirigid Dirigible doesn't roll off the tongue," Eddie Ogden, the company's airship historian, said about sticking with the term.
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"More airship designs exist on the drawing boards and await only sufficient investment to explore their ideas," writes Prentice in his report.
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If you stop pedaling you lose — and then a cannon sounds, an airship swoops down, and you're ushered out of the arena.
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The North Koreans wanted to discuss the purchase of an airship, also known as an aerostat, for around $1 million, Michurin said.
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HAV turned the airship into a commercial aircraft after funding cutbacks forced the U.S. government to drop plans to use it for surveillance.
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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has reportedly invested between $100 and $150 million of his own money in building a 600-foot flying airship.
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Airship announced today that it has acquired Apptimize, an A/B testing company whose customers include Glassdoor, HotelTonight and The Wall Street Journal.
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After all, what good is it being a billionaire if you can't secretly build your own giant airship in a repurposed NASA hangar?
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This former director, Alan Weston, has said recently on record that new airship tech could enable more efficient cargo transportation over great distances.
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And in 2010, we spotted 500 Startups' Dave McClure writing a check to then-stealthy startup Tello, which was bought by Urban Airship.
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Companies like Urban Airship, Retention Sciences and Marketo come to mind for Brown — but they approach things from a marketing and advertising perspective.
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Airship is building a feature flagging framework that lets small startups roll out products the same way the the big tech companies do.
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It has also re-upped in plenty of its portfolio companies in recent months, including Urban Airship, an eight-year-old, Portland, Ore.
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Designed by Roderick James, the AirShip 2 boasts a bedroom, bathroom, kitchenette, indoor fireplace, deck, and sprawling views of the Sound of Mull.
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I asked Boyd about Pasternak's buoyancy-control system, which had just shown up in a new design for the Russians' airship, the Atlant.
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George R. Lawrence, Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from the Captive Airship, 22018 meters above San Francisco Bay, overlooking the waterfront, 22013.
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The one built for the Hindenburg escaped destruction over New Jersey, having been taken off the airship before the fatal flight in 1937.
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The base cost of the airship is $194 per night, though the host offers a discounted rate for weekend stays, according to the listing.
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Designed by architect Roderick James, the airship is an aluminum pod that has been remodeled to suit human needs, according to its Airbnb listing.
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The settings appeal to the nascent game designer within every player, stringing together vast deserts with mysterious castles, raucous train journeys and airship rides.
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Some kind of massive airship — or, possibly, space ship — appears in the sky at the end of multiplayer matches in the game's "Nuketown" map.
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This allows companies such as Urban Airship or DotDashPay to help business clients distribute and update their passes and tickets to Google Pay users.
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For the moment, the dream of bringing back the airship isn't completely aloft, but it's certainly afloat — just a few meters above the ground.
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Kendrick used to run Richard Branson's Virgin Airship and Balloon Company, which had 19 blimps around the globe used for advertising or camera work.
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What attracted SLA to the Lockheed Martin product is that the hybrid airship is heavier than air, even though it is filled with helium.
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It strikes Gulliver that floating to a meeting across the ocean in an airship would be a wonderfully civilised and relaxing way to arrive.
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Now Lockheed can use multiple Spider robots to scan an airship, saving time (and keep engineers from walking around with giant lamp for hours).
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The airship is a hybrid of a blimp, which maintains it shape from internal gas pressure, and a zeppelin, which has a rigid airframe.
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Mr. Eckener, head of the Zeppelin airship company, flew the first aerial circumnavigation at the behest of William Randolph Hearst, who financed the trip.
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Urban Airship recently announced new capabilities designed to allow app developers to deliver the right message to their users at exactly the right time.
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Fairgoers will have a chance to see Burden's "Ode to Santos Dumont" (2015), an operational airship inspired by the aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont.
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While the Goodyear Blimp is often seen mid-air, guests who get the chance to stay in the airship will (thankfully!) be firmly grounded.
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An airship, or dirigible, is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft which can navigate through the air under its own power.
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Brin is said to be building the airship, which would be the world's largest aircraft, out of a NASA research center near Mountain View, California.
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Recently, the company has filed for numerous patents, from a drone beehive placed in populated areas to dropping packages with parachutes to a massive airship.
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His latest novel is Pimp My Airship, a steampunk adventure that follows a poet named Sleepy whose only goal is to stay out of trouble.
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Engines guide the airship into position, and on its belly are wheel-like structures that spin to let it either hover or "grip" a surface.
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The airship could wind up costing Brin $100 million to $150 million of his own money, so he can do with it what he wants.
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Another critique is that the engineering problems associated with building an airship the length of five Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other.
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Weather wasn't a concern for the modern airship pilot; onboard satellite systems permit him to avoid storms, fly around them, or hover somewhere and wait.
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Advances in fabric-manufacturing technology—including the invention, in 1839, of vulcanized rubber, by the American merchant Charles Goodyear— prompted a frenzy of airship innovation.
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The technology also faces a perception problem stretching back to the Hindenburg air disaster in 1937, when a hydrogen-filled airship exploded in New Jersey.
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The Amsterdam-based firm competes in the fast-growing cloud-based messaging market with more than a dozen firms, including Twilio, Blackberry, Nexmo and Urban Airship.
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The airship is located in Drimnin, Scotland, and it sits next to the Sound of Mull, a body of water off the coast of the country.
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The robot consists of two magnetically-attached halves, one that sits on the outside of the airship, while the other clings to it from the inside.
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In "Beatrice," a physician falls in love with an airship, while in "Who is Arvid Pekon," a new employee starts working in a weird call center.
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It was widely assumed that the idea of the airship as a method of mass transport perished that day along with 2503 of those on board.
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Spider comes in two parts — one for the inner surface and one for the outer area — which magnetically pair and inspect the airship using light sensors.
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Sources say Brin pictures the airship delivering goods and food on humanitarian missions, as well as being an "air yacht" for the billionaire's friends and family.
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Titch knows that Wash will be killed on the mere suspicion of involvement in a white man's death, so the pair flee Barbados in their airship.
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Airship wants to let its customers start testing features the same way that companies like Facebook and Dropbox do without all the added complications and resources.
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There's a daring rescue mission that takes place on a massive luxury airship, and ends with a staggeringly huge squid monster being impaled on a skyscraper.
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This allows us great maneuverability in the air and the capability to launch and land the airship vertically as well as to maintain higher cruise speeds.
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It was a half-scale demonstration model of the LMH-1, the airship that the company has been quietly developing for the past twenty-five years.
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They cover a range of locations, from the bustling city of Diamond City to a Red Rocket gas station to the Prydwen airship high above the Commonwealth.
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The company said that flying the airship will be cheaper and quieter than traditional aircraft, and the plan is to sell between 200 and 500 of them.
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The game plays like a 3D Mario game, a la Mario 64, but instead of collecting stars, you're hunting for nearly 28,22 moons that propel your airship.
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Airlander 10, the butt-shaped airship that just flew for the first time last week, crashed earlier this morning on its second test flight, damaging the cockpit.
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Knowing that one antislavery character has fashioned an airship and made friends with the hero hints that maybe he'll swoop down and transport the slave to freedom.
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Also on view are pieces of metal and fabric from the skin of the airship; and a cap, badge and boot that belonged to the German airmen.
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The Hindenburg was minutes from landing when a hydrogen gas leak was met with static electricity, igniting the airship, which was about 175 feet in the air.
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Airship says it will be bringing over 19 Apptimize team members (a little less than two-thirds of the startup's total workforce) across engineering, customer service and sales.
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The U.S. e-commerce giant described plans for an "airborne fulfillment center" (AFC) such as an airship or blimp that would float at an altitude of around 45,000.
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It's unclear if Lockheed has begun sharing its technology with other companies, but there's no doubt the airship industry will want to get its hands on the Spider.
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Haigh focused on a TED talk in which Teller said that X had abandoned an airship project after realizing the first prototype would cost an unacceptable $200 million.
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But while coins are easy to come by, the game's main currency is Power Moons, which can be used to unlock new worlds and to fuel Mario's airship.
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In a pretty amazing demo, Apple highlighted the marker-less spatial awareness that ARKit has in a tabletop gaming title featuring an airship attack on an enemy outpost.
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Peakon wants to make that a reality for more companies, targeting those with 100 employees or more, citing existing clients such as Delivery Hero, Urban Airship, and Opera.
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Satellite images indicate that China has deployed an operational airship known as an aerostat in the disputed Mischief Reef, strengthening its reconnaissance ability in the South China Sea.
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That same night, the airship was scheduled to return to Europe with 72 passengers in time for the coronation of King George VI of England, Mr. Zitarosa said.
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In addition to graduating these first two projects, Airship — a collection of open-source tools for provisioning private clouds that is currently a pilot project — hit version 1.0 today.
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Lockheed Martin's LMH1 airship - which also costs around $40 million - is a competitor to Hybrid Air Vehicles with the company touting the potential to deliver cargo to remote areas.
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The airship could then become a familiar sight over the central English countryside as it aims to complete 200 hours of test flights before demonstrations to would-be customers.
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The waterfront promenade offers postcard-worthy views of Lake Constance, with Switzerland and the rising Alps visible on the far side, as well as the occasional airship sighting overhead.
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One is called Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, and it's being developed by Airship Syndicate for console and PC. You can check out the first trailer above.
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It was unveiled last July, at the Paris Air Show, and introduced as a "hybrid airship," ready for order through Hybrid Enterprises, a private reseller, for forty million dollars.
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Despite a large amount of production, there is a problem transporting wood to the mills, according to Sébastien Bougon, CEO of Flying Whales, one of the companies building the airship.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is building a massive airship, we learned in April, and now The Guardian reports some additional details about the purpose and nature of the project.
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The airship looks a bit like a flying can of Pillsbury Biscuits after it's been popped, and it can best be described as part blimp, part airplane and part helicopter.
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But it would also be a slow one: the cruising speed of a jumbo is four times faster than even the University of Lincoln's blue-sky estimates for an airship.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world's longest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crash-landed after a test flight in Bedfordshire, central England, its British manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles said on Wednesday.
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In the game, you play as either Gran or Djeeta, depending on the gender of the character you choose, the captain of an airship in a world of floating islands.
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In the game, you play as either Gran or Djeeta, depending on the gender of the character you choose, the captain of an airship in a world of floating islands.
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A new generation of airship engineers, some backed by significant government and private investment, is convinced that, given new technologies and new materials, the public can be sold on airships.
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During a flashback sequence, when Akio starts excitedly explaining how the FFIII airship works, his dad interrupts to tell him to stop playing so many games, and focus more on studying.
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The world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, is ready to fly again after its crash last summer, but the company behind the blimp is not giving a timeline for takeoff.
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At least I'm told it is — I was too busy being run over by a tank built like an oversized steel shoebox to notice the vast airship appearing in the sky.
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Several uses of the airship have been mooted, including carrying heavy equipment to out-of-the-way places, such as mining camps, that do not have runways for more conventional aircraft.
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But the stores in the game also sell Power Moons, so I thought maybe I could cheat a bit by just buying a bunch of them to fuel up the airship.
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A vitrine displays the cutting-edge technology of the time that was used to spot the airship: a radio device fitted in a wooden, glass-fronted box, with knobs on top.
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"You can leave your shoes here," Boyd said, and he went up inside the hull of the airship, hoisting himself through the opening, which had turned into a madly flapping tube.
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As Pasternak sees it, the contest is not about who can put on the best airship show but about which designer can meet the customer's desire to lift, soar, and drop.
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LEMV was later canceled by the military and the airship was repurchased by HAV, transferred back to one of its facilities in Cardington, and converted into the Airlander 10, a civilian model.
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A couple of years ago, UK-based Hybrid Air Vehicles captivated the world when it unveiled the Airlander 10, a lighter-than-air airship designed as an alternative to airplanes and helicopters.
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And while we're on the subject of marketers, it's worth noting that the Pilgrim SDK integrates with a variety of marketing automation software such as Urban Airship, Appboy, Localytics, mParticle, and others.
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By world four, I was both fully engrossed and slightly bummed that I was most of the way through the game, fully committed to the nostalgia of desert worlds and airship battles.
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In the nineteen-nineties, he met Roger Munk, a legendary British airship engineer, who told him about the Skykitten, a forty-two-foot-long remote-controlled prototype for his proposed Skycat hauler.
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If you are extra bold, however, Embraer's design chief, Jay Beever, will gladly offer you some of his truly over-the-top interior concepts — like the Kyoto Airship and its astonishing skylights ...
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An airship of any size is not what one expects to see inside a building that's on the National Register of Historic Places, an incongruity which the artist is undoubtedly aware of.
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Although it may not be as wild as an airship, CNN reports that the US Patent and Trademark office granted Amazon a patent for a new method to deliver packages via drone: parachutes.
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Jay Beever, Embraer's vice president of interior design, told Wired that a potential customer of the Kyoto Airship would be a Japanese businessman who prefers to sit on the floor, bathed in sunlight.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world's longest aircraft, an airship spanning more than six double-decker buses, is set to make its maiden flight later this Spring, British manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles said on Monday.
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"Empire of the Clouds," on Iron Maiden's latest studio album, "The Book of Souls," is about Dickinson's favorite airship, the R101, which was built a century ago, in this same shed in Bedford.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin's secret airship will be used for humanitarian missions, but it will also serve as a giant RV in the sky for his friends and family, according to The Guardian.
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Under the soaring prow of a dynamically angled glass-and-steel structure drifting like an airship over a palatial brick firehouse, a chorus and orchestra performed the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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The Led Zeppelin coaster is now the star attraction of Sun World's Dragon Park in Ha Long; it has been entirely rethemed save the loading area, which is still housed inside the giant airship.
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The gas is cheaper and more plentiful than helium and is 14 times lighter than air — helium is just over 5 times lighter than air which would limit the weight an airship could carry.
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William Crowder, a senior fellow at the Logistics Management Institute, a nonprofit consulting firm that works with both civil and defense agencies, has been tracking the development of the modern airship for twenty years.
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A blimp is just one type of airship, usually a small one, and always nonrigid, meaning that it has no structural hull; its shape is maintained by the pressure of the lifting gas within.
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Airship designers eventually abandoned the idea of carrying passengers and embraced the notion of carrying cargo, which is achieved only inefficiently by rail, roads, and sea, and isn't achieved at all in remote areas.
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It was meant to be Britain's signature airship, a luxury liner outfitted with fifty carpeted cabins, two promenade decks, and a smoking room, and was designed to carry royalty across the sprawling British Empire.
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The HAV 304 Airlander 10 hybrid airship landing after its maiden flight (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) While it's easy to make 🍑 jokes (haha), the Airlander 10 is quite an impressive feat of engineering.
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Two hundred and sixty-six feet long—nearly the length of a football field—and ninety-six feet wide, the Dragon Dream was the largest rigid airship built in the U.S. since the nineteen-thirties.
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The story was engrossing, and the worlds so realized that I can still recall the sense of pure wonder I felt exploring the open world by airship and, after hours of secret-hunting, by golden Chocobo.
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A massive retrospective of legendary Studio Ghibli's most recognizable creations, including a massive model of the airship from 1986 classic, Castle in the Sky, opens tomorrow on the observation deck of the Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View.
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Although the spectacle of this airship careening into fans below isn't quite the explosive spectacle of some new age Hindenburg, it's a visual anecdote for why the FAA isn't too thrilled about flying big drones over people.
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The airship, which is bigger than the size of six double-decker buses, sustained damage on landing from its second test flight, Hybrid Air Vehicles said, adding that all crew were safe and well following the incident.
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There, the Aerial Signal Corps' first female airship captain, Josette Dupre is sent to the front lines of a battle, where she has to contend with an untested ship and a crew that don't trust their untested captain.
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Google's Planetary Ventures division gained access to the Ames facility in 2015, and started using its vast hangars as labs and test areas for new technologies, but the sources note that the airship isn't a proper Alphabet project.
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An airship-shaped object could be seen floating over the atoll, which is now China&aposs biggest outpost in the disputed waters, Israeli satellite company ImageSat International (ISI), said in a post on its Twitter account on Sunday.
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Occasionally bursting into song, they enlist the children in activities like building a transmission pod from hidden parts, launching an airship and frightening off Volter's henchmen, the moles (huge rodent puppets that look too silly to be scary).
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During Google's 2012 developer conference, wingsuit flyers wearing Glass prototypes, the company's just-unveiled face computer, jumped out of an airship (twice!) and landed on the roof of the convention center, all while connected to a Google Hangout.
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Unlikely comparisons can be drawn between the different forms in the grid: for example, how the construction of an airship resembles the ridges on a clam shell, or how dusty moth wings unfold like giant nebulae in the sky.
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For sheer zaniness, the most memorable is Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian coffee heir and aviation nut who held aerial dinner parties (waiters had to be agile), and bar-hopped across fin de siècle Paris in a tiny airship.
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The craft — which apparently looks like a classic zeppelin — is housed at NASA's Ames research facility, the publication's sources say, but it's not clear whether the airship a prototype for a business venture, or just a passion project for the billionaire.
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This time, it's Sergey Brin — but instead of glorified water speeders flying cars, like the Larry Page-funded Kitty Hawk Flyer unveiled earlier this week, he'll reportedly opt for something a bit more extravagant for his airborne transportation: a massive airship.
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While A/B testing startups generally tackle small content changes like different headlines, Airship is letting customers ship entirely different features to swaths of users so that companies are more informed about how their audiences will react to redesigns or updates.
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With tracer fire hissing overhead, and grenades and artillery shells exploding along a muddy ridge I was using for cover, I sprinted through the skeletal remains of a crashed airship down to the railway embankment that followed the river's meander.
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But, as the Hindenburg approached the Lakehurst Naval Air Station on May 6, 1937, flames began to flicker on top of the ship, quickly fueled into an inferno by the hydrogen that kept the 804-foot-long German passenger airship aloft.
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In the show, Miranda plays Texan aeronaut and adventurer Lee Scoresby and, if the television series follows the book's plot arc, Lyra will need him and his airship as she ventures to the north in pursuit of the missing children.
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