Massive electric airship prototype to take flight over Bay Area skies

Soon if you look up in the South Bay, you may see the Pathfinder 1, an enormous 400-foot-long electric airship that "looks like a Goodyear blimp on steroids." STORY: abc7ne.ws/47Bc2pY
#airship #technology #prototype #electric #abc7news

[@wildlifeandmore1719]

I can die at peace knowing ridged body airships exist now

[@ekweseman]

Airships are making a comeback as the technology now exists to make them more modern and efficient.

[@samfromportadown]

That's not a blimp. That's a zeppelin. You can tell immediately because you can see the structure giving it that panelled look. Nothing else looks like a zep.

[@proxy1359]

well, more specifically a rigid airship, since "zeppelin" more refers to airships made by the zeppelin company (like zeppelin nt, a semi-rigid airship which the gondola of pathfinder 1 is from)

[@horsthubner4036]

In einem echten Luftschiff reisen die Menschen im Luftschiff selbst und nicht in einer Gondel. Von daher ist es, auch wenn es sehr groß ist, noch immer ein Blimp.

[@horsthubner4036]

Es ist kein Zeppelin, darin reisen die Gäste im Inneren und nicht in einer Gondel.

[@hurricanefury439]

Admiral Moffett would be proud

[@colenewaltersmusicandother9330]

We had so many zeppelins in the 1800s just like electric cars.. they are acting like this is a new thing. It was just hidden well .

[@willsco76]

Looks like it's a modified Zeppelin NT. Has the same gondola and rear landing gear.

[@teresatang9060]

Good

[@CorneliusDale]

Does anyone know whether or not there are photos of the cabin that have been released?

[@sosaysthecaptain5580]

I saw a video of this, it's the same cabin used by the Zeppelin NT. Small and unremarkable.

[@pilot1crewmate729]

Blimps are not done yet

[@brianb-p6586]

This is not a blimp. Blimps do not have a rigid structure, holding their shape by inflation; this has a rigid structure inside.

[@angelomontoya6829]

​@@brianb-p6586
Muchacho te equivocas los dirigibles de verdad tamaño grande zeppelin tienen una estructura rigida para mantener su forma sin la necesidad de inflarlo como un globo de fiesta 🤦‍♂️😓

[@brianb-p6586]

Zeppelins with internal structure are lighter-than-air craft (or "airships"), but they are dirigibles, not blimps,@@angelomontoya6829 . A blimp is an airship which does not have a rigid structure, holding its shape by inflation instead.

[@johnward1191]

Just Sergei Brins' way of telling Larry Page mine is bigger than yours!

[@solidorsharp3091]

❤🎉

[@spankflaps1365]

Americans automatically assume balloons are aliens.
Because ET flew right across the universe in a fkn BALLOON apparently.

[@myobmyob2215]

2023 Hangar reopen
2024 Hindenburg 2.0 down
2025 Hangar closed

[@sleeplessengineer1450]

this uses helium not hydrogen

[@Florimar.HS077]

❤❤🎉🎉