Necessity is the mother of invention, and this is never more true than in the air freight industry. Air carriers and the manufacturers who supply them have long struggled to serve inaccessible or underdeveloped regions. Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airship offers the flexibility and maneuverability to do just that.The Hybrid Airship combines the lighter-than-air lifting capacity of an airship with an advanced air cushion system.
Produced with the same technology used to create hovercrafts, the air cushion system lets the ship launch and land virtually anywhere in the world, even if there is no infrastructure there to receive it. Combined with precise propellors and a fly-by-wire guidance system, this expands the range of locations where it can land and functions that it can perform. Whether it is delivering relief aid to disaster sites, supplying mines or other industrial operations in remote locations, or providing food and medical equipment to low-income countries, the Hybrid Airship is suited to a wide range of tasks that traditional aircraft struggle to perform.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and this is never more true than in the air freight industry. Air carriers and the manufacturers who supply them have long struggled to serve inaccessible or underdeveloped regions. Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airship offers the flexibility and maneuverability to do just that.The Hybrid Airship combines the lighter-than-air lifting capacity of an airship with an advanced air cushion system. Produced with the same technology used to create hovercrafts, the air cushion system lets the ship launch and land virtually anywhere in the world, even if there is no infrastructure there to receive it. Combined with precise propellors and a fly-by-wire guidance system, this expands the range of locations where it can land and functions that it can perform. Whether it is delivering relief aid to disaster sites, supplying mines or other industrial operations in remote locations, or providing food and medical equipment to low-income countries, the Hybrid Airship is suited to a wide range of tasks that traditional aircraft struggle to perform.
