airships
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Harmless Sound Waves Propel This Indoor Camera Drone for a Safer, Quieter Experience
The old adage that what goes up must come down seems to apply especially to drones, and during an unplanned descent, their exposed spinning propeller blades can be quite dangerous. As a safer alternative, NTT Docomo, a Japanese mobile carrier, has proposed a camera-equipped blimp that navigates an indoor space using harmless sound waves for…
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The World’s Biggest Aircraft Could Launch A New Age Of Airships
Airships lost much of their popularity after the fiery Hindenburg disaster in 1937. But one company’s looking to revive the technology with the biggest aircraft on Earth.
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Monster Machines: Goodyear’s Newest Blimp Isn’t Actually A Blimp
This ain’t no blimp. The first new dirigible in nearly a half century to bear the the iconic Goodyear logo is actually a rigid airship — a safer, more efficient, far less explodey form of air travel than conventional blimps.
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31 Photos From The Golden Age Of Airships, When Zeppelins Ruled The Sky
It’s been nearly a century since airships floated by the Empire State Building. But now that the aluminium airship of the future is here and almost ready to carry passengers, it’s high time that we took a look back to those few decades when majestic zeppelins seemed like the future of travel.