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Of course it's niche applications, but it is the Zeppelin NTs which is the biggest success story. They're used for tourism in Germany and advertising in the US
by vintermann 4y ago
Of course it's niche applications, but it is the Zeppelin NTs which is the biggest success story. They're used for tourism in Germany and advertising in the US (the Goodyear Blimps, which as the article points out are no longer blimps at all, but much larger Zeppelins).
Zeppelin Luftschiffstechnik have survived by being _very_ careful about the scale of their ambitions (i.e, it's very modest). They did deliver the three ships in the Goodyear fleet, though, as far as I know completely on schedule, which is rare in any project of that scale, let alone an airship project.
I still haven't written off Sergey Brin's project entirely, although it keeps getting delayed. Airlander I'm less optimistic about, but they did fly (and crash) their prototype and they're still around, so who knows.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoThe Sergey Brin airship project is Lighter Than Air (LTA), in case any one was wondering. https://www.ft.com/content/ae625a25-d2ac-4bca-9508-a5f0d3c7dd09 https://www.ft.com/content/ae625a25-d2ac-4bca-9508-a5f0d3c7d...
- oofta-boofta 4y agoHow much do you want to bet the employees working on this were apart of the anointed 12k that just got laid off
- 0xB31B1B 4y agoLTA is not google/alphabet affiliated
- iancmceachern 4y agoI wonder why, why was this not, and Loon was?
- hgsgm 4y agoBrin is toxic to the Alphabet brand. Too much using the staff as a sexual smorgasbord.
- water-your-self 4y agoGiven that i cannot find anything to suggest it is a subsidiary, I would stake a healthy sum that they did not particiapte in the Google layoffs
- smegger001 4y agoone does not lay of the team of a pet project of the confounder/board member with controlling interest in your company lightly.
- entangledqubit 4y agoPet projects often get replaced with new pet projects...