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Vas pup November 10, 2023 5:39 PM. Sergey Brin's zeppelin: The biggest, greenest aircraft in the worldhttps://aerospaceamerica.
"For three years rumors swirled: What could Google billionaire Sergey Brinpossibly be building - in secret and far from public view - inside an old Navy blimp hangar at Moffett Field in California? The answer came in October: Brin's company, LTA Research, revealed Pathfinder 1, an all-composite, extremelygreen, extremely large 123 meters long by 20 meters in diameter new-age zeppelin the size of four Goodyear blimps."
Since Pathfinder 1 needs no airport or runway to land, its initial mission willbe delivering humanitarian aid and disaster relief to regions of the worldinaccessible to conventional aircraft.
In March, it negotiated a deal to buy the Akron Airdock - 360 meters long, 99 meters wide, 64 meters tall - in which the U.S. Navy built its airplane-carrying airships Akron and Macon of the 1930s.
"=>The company and the U.S. Navy's Naval Postgraduate School in August signed acooperative research and development agreement to explore what impact hybridaircraft might have on Navy and Marine Corps logistics capability.
Investment firm Global Emerging Markets made a $200 million commitment tohelp HAV eventually go public.