Google's co-founder Sergei Brin is also interested in the sky, rumors going on developing a huge airship development program

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There is widespread view that Sergei Brin, who is the president of parent company Alphabet, who has launched Google with Larry Page, is developing a huge airship as an individual project.

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According to the information from the four people who know the circumstances Bloomberg Technology reported that Mr. Brin is constructing a huge airship in the "hanger 2" in the NASA Ames research center . It is still unknown whether the project is totally personal or whether it is possible to develop into a business in the future. Mr. Brin said "We are sorry, at the present moment for e-mail interviews from Bloomberg Technology There is nothing we can do. "

According to the information of the person who knows this project, Mr. Brin said he was interested in airships from the past. From the time I visited the Ames Research Center, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the company where Alphabet's headquarters is located, it is said that the airship flew into Mr. Brin's heart. Ames research center was once an airship built by the US Navy in the 1930sMaconMr. Brin said that he decided to make his own airship when seeing the photo of Macon in 2014.


In 2015, Google's Planetary Ventures unit handed over several hangers in the Ames Research Center and reworked it as a research facility for our company. Mr. Brin 's airship is gradually being built, and it is said that the framework is now being created.

It is believed that Mr. Alan Weston, who served as director of Ames Research Center, leads this project. Mr. Weston born in Australia has been studying at Oxford University after spending his youth in Turkey. Mr. Weston said that he was also a member of the "Dangerous Sports Club" formed in the 1970s. In this club, there was an attempt to carry out extreme activities such as "catapults with catapults on the net" from an intellectual standpoint. Besides, I tried activities such as trying out bungee jumping, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and getting off at the hang rider.

After that, Mr. Weston enters the Air Force and will be involved in "Star Wars Concept" planned during the Cold War. Mr. Weston moved to NASA and he was involved in the development of Mars lander.

In the radio interview in 2013 Mr. Weston said that the plan of the airship is for carrying cargo. With an airship, it is said that merit is possible to carry out transportation at less expensive than conventional airplanes, helicopters, and trucks, and it is believed that development is carried out with a view to utilization as a future transportation means .

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The airship being developed floats up using helium and it is supposed to adjust the buoyancy by putting in and out compressed air in a small tank attached inside. Mr. Weston expresses this as "the airship breathes". Using this technology, the airship no longer needs to carry ballast (weight), it will be able to transport 500 tons of cargo.

However, this project seems to be kept secret, and Mr. Weston who got interviewed about this case said he rewrote LinkdIn's profile and assumed incumbent as CEO of "Ltare" company.

Mr. Brin's ally member Mr. Larry Page is also promoting the development of the sky, and the other day, I have released an image of a one-seater super lightweight aircraft "Kitty Hawk Flyer".

First flight image of the one-seater super lightweight aircraft "Kitty Hawk Flyer" supported by Google's Larry Page First - GIGAZINE