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Fri, Jun 02, 2017

Google Co-Founder Envisions $100 Million Blimp

Would Be The Largest Aircraft In The World

Google co-founder Sergey Brin thinks the world needs a larger blimp, and he's hoping he can be the one to make it happen.

Brin (pictured) has proposed an airship that would cost in the neighborhood of $100 million and be the largest aircraft in the world, according to USA Today. It would be used for humanitarian missions, such as moving critical supplies into areas that are difficult to access.

Bloomberg reported last month that Brin was building an airship at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, the city in which Google is headquartered.

Brin had initially thought that hydrogen could be used to provide lift for the aircraft, but that is not allowed under FAA rules because of its volatility. So helium would be used to fill the bladders of the airship.  

The U.K. newspaper The Guardian reported that while Google Planetary Ventures leases more than 1,000 acres from the government at Ames, the blimp project is a personal one, not a Google venture.

(Brin pictured in image captured from World Economic Forum video posted to YouTube)

FMI: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin

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