The Aeroscraft airship was designed from the start to haul cargo, and it needed to solve a problem that has prevented airships to be used for cargo in the past: the problem of ballast.

Aeroscraft dirigible airship prototype approaches completion. The Aeroscraft uses a suite of new mechanical and aerospace technologies. View 10 Images 1 / 10.

In Detail: Aeroscraft. Just as electric cars had their beginning long before making a comeback, airships have had a similar history. The big advantage to airships is that they can carry heavy ...

The Aeroscraft airship, a high-tech prototype airship, is seen in a World War II-era hangar in Tustin. Aerospace engineer Munir Jojo-Verge works in the cockpit of the Aeroscraft airship, ...

The Aeroscraft that sits in Pasternak's hangar is the biggest rigid-hulled airship built in the United States since the 1940s. But it's tiny compared with the full-scale transport vehicle that ...

The airship is undergoing testing this month at Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, ... Hovering Aeroscraft being built in Calif. 7 photos.

The Aeroscraft has been under development by Aeros Corp, the world’s largest airship and blimp maker, since 1996.The project has received over $35 million in R&D funds and the government has ...

The Aeroscraft airship will carry three times as much as the biggest military cargo planes over thousands of miles, use a third of the fuel, and it doesn't even need a landing strip.

Lockheed and Northrop have fixed their sights on a type of airship that still requires a runway. “None of them have the capability of the Aeroscraft,” Pasternak says. The widely used C-17 ...

The Aeroscraft in Pasternak's hangar is the biggest rigid airship built in the United States since the 1940s. But it's tiny compared with the transport vehicle that Pasternak envisions.

Designed to fill the gap between helicopters and planes, the Aeroscraft ML868 can carry 66 tonnes, fly at 220kph and land without using runways or external ballasting systems ...

TUSTIN, Calif. — The massive blimp-like aircraft flies but just barely, hovering only a dozen feet off a military hangar floor during flight testing south of Los Angeles. Still, the fact that ...