Zeppelins could make a comeback in a big, bad way — courtesy of a new aluminum-shelled, solar-powered airship that’s being built by U.K.-based company Varialift Airships. Here's why Varialift ...

A concept image of the Varialift airship Airships were once considered the future of flight. Now, they are being touted as a greener method of transport . A solar-powered airship being built by UK ...

Lockheed Martin is also proposing an airship, this time closer to the more traditional image of an airship. Unlike the Varialift idea, this one, which the company calls the Hybrid Airship, can ...

United Kingdom-based Varialift uses an airship completely made out of aluminum and says its study "identifies a market for thousands of its airships" that allows "cargo access to remote areas ...

“Using the Varialift would mean that truckers would be able to continue to bring their loads to marshalling yards close to where the ice roads would have started, and then transfer their loads to the ...

I have been following for some time the progress of Alan Handley’s Varialift project, reported by Donna Lu (12 October, p 15). The Varialift is an aerial bathyscaphe, able to perform highly ...

VariaLift is looking for capital to test its theories. It has three proposed models, ... A helium airship went up in flames a few years before and killed twice as many people!

A gargantuan hangar in a secretive Xinjiang desert reveals China is thinking big – really big – when it comes to high-altitude warfare.

CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to show Aeros Corp., not Airship Ventures, manufactures aerostats and that the load of the largest Air Force cargo aircraft is 90 tons.

A concept Roll-On Roll-Off (RORO) heavy-cargo carrying hybrid airship. Picture: Varialift. But that’s likely less of an issue in a world of uncrewed, autonomous drones.