The Flying Truck?

Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airship has the potential to revolutionise transportation to remote locations

If you think of an airship, most people get an image of the giant rigid airships of the 1920s and ’30s. The size of ocean liners, these lighter-than-air behemoths were a glamorous and unique way for passengers to travel across the North Atlantic, forming the first viable alternative to sea travel between Europe and the United States.

Long since abandoned as a primary mode of transport, you could be forgiven for thinking that the airship had been consigned to the history books. However, for the past two decades, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has been working on reviving the airship as a modern, efficient and environmentally-friendly cargo transport.