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LTA Research highlights the humanitarian angle. As its FAQs explain, “airships will have the ability to complement, and even speed up, humanitarian disaster response and relief efforts, ...
Sergey Brin’s secretive airship company LTA Research and Exploration is planning to power a huge disaster relief airship with an equally record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell. A job listing from ...
LTA Research recently announced that its airship, the Pathfinder 1, has received its airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
On 24 October 2024, a brief post was shared on the social media network LinkedIn.In it Google co-founder Sergey Brin's airship company LTA Research finally announced Pathfinder 1's first if brief ...
By 2016, LTA Research had two locations: an R&D lab in Akron, Ohio, U.S., to test design and manufacturing techniques, and a hangar in Mountain View, Calif., U.S. That year, LTA constructed and flew ...
Sergey Brin's secret blimp company is likely called "LTA Research & Exploration, LLC", and it paid more than $100,000 to lease space from Alphabet, based on clues disclosed in Alphabet's annual ...
As dawn breaks over Silicon Valley, the world is getting its first look at Pathfinder 1, a prototype electric airship that its maker LTA Research hopes will kickstart a new era in climate-friendly ...
LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1 lifts off for a test flight from Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Calif. The 400-foot airship is part of a private initiative to revive rigid airship ...
LTA Research and Flying Whales are following the example of the old zeppelins, using sturdy rings to hold the shape of their long, lighter-than-air balloons.
Akron's getting back into the blimp business at its famous airdock. The city said March 8 that LTA Research—which derives its name from the phrase "lighter than air," according to its website—has ...
Sergey Brin’s secretive airship company LTA Research and Exploration is planning to power a huge disaster relief airship with an equally record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell. A job listing from ...