As with LTA, he’s pushing the humanitarian applications of airships, having entered into a partnership with the World Food Program that he hopes will eventually

As with LTA, he’s pushing the humanitarian applications of airships, having entered into a partnership with the World Food Program that he hopes will eventually see his invention delivering food to famine-struck regions. Interesting, this is the same motivation the financial backer of the AEREON 7 had. While the AEREON 7 never materialized, a scaled down test aircraft known as the AEREON 26 flew, and demonstrated the possibility of building a hybrid airship/airplane. The book "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed" describes the efforts of the AEREON corporation's attempt and failure to bring airships back into the mainstream of aviation. History seems to be repeating itself here. I would love to see airships return, and there are many possibilities today that didn't exist in the late 19th and early 20th century. However, like supersonic flight for the masses, it doesn't seem likely to ever return to the aviation mainstream.