Reviving an early 20th-century ambition, an experimental airship debuted at Moffett Field in November, albeit for only a few minutes before technicians rolled the massive aircraft back inside its ...

pylon to preview the racing potential of the personal eVTOL. Though this hardly qualifies as a race itself – as there was only one aircraft zipping above the adhoc arena, and only one pylon on ...

Because airships boast such exceptional “lift-to-drag ratios”, as engineers put it, they also consume relatively little fuel. This makes them—at least in theory—ideal freight vehicles.