A huge airship shed (Hangar No 1) was built, housing the experimental hydrogen-filled airships R-31 and R-32 (R standing for ‘Rigid’). In 1917 an attractive administration block – the Shorts ...

If Tropical Islands stays afloat, others may eye the world’s few remaining airship hangars for similar uses, though some aviation analysts predict a revival of airships, which would compete for ...

“It’s hard to kill a non-rigid airship.” The carbon fiber skeleton of LTA’s 400-foot Pathfinder 1 seems to hover inside one of Moffett’s massive hangars. These high-tech materials will ...

Pathfinder 1 bow quarter view, in Moffett Field Hangar 2 in mid-2022. Courtesy LTA Research. The airship also is safer than its 20th-century predecessors, such as the ill-fated Hindenburg ...

The more infamous of these, the R101, was built in the giant hangar at what was then the Royal Airship Works at Cardington. Lord Thomson, the Air Minister, was a staunch advocate of the scheme ...