New podcast episode: talking airships with the Straightline Aviation management team
Airships may be close to making their grand comeback to the world of mainstream aviation. Those that listened to our earlier episode with the CEO of Hybrid Air Vehicles, Tom Grundy, already know so. Today, however, we are talking about another promising project in this space.
Mike Krendrick, James Dorey and James Dexter are the Chairman, CEO and Director of Operations, respectively, of Straightline Aviation, a British startup that aims to become the world’s first commercial airship air cargo operator.
Whereas most of the attention is on the airship developers, Straightline Aviation is capitalizing the decades of airship experience that its management team accumulates in order to plot the launch of an on-demand air cargo service by airship.
To do so, Straightline Aviation has put its trust in a new generation airship that was, at first, developed by Lockheed Martin and, later on, by a spin-off company called AT² Aerospace. The airship’s novel Air Cushion Landing System (ACLS) makes it possible to land pretty much wherever there is some large-enough flat surface, which makes it a suitable vehicle to access remote locations and places devoid of any proper land infrastructure.
Listen to today’s episode for a masterclass in airship technology and learn about the ways in which Straightline Aviation plans to deploy this new generation of hi-tech lighter than air vehicles.
