[HN Gopher] The giant hangar poised for an aviation revolution
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       The giant hangar poised for an aviation revolution
        
       Author : clouddrover
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-06-26 08:51 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | Animats wrote:
       | Private jets are for the little people. Google's founders first
       | got their own air terminal.[1] Then their own airport.[2] Now,
       | giant airship yachts.
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       | [1]
       | https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/05/25/signatur...
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       | [2] https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/nasa-agrees-lease-
       | moffett-a...
        
       | walrus01 wrote:
       | somewhat related, does this other lighter than air craft actually
       | have the money to build what they've announced?
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       | https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/our-aircraft/airlander-10/
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles
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       | there's also these guys:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Aeros_Corp
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       | and there was a lockheed martin semi rigid airship we heard a lot
       | about in like 2014 and almost nothing since then.
        
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