The vehicle under construction at Worldwide Aeros, the Aeroscraft Dragon Dream, is a non-cylindrical rigid airship. It takes a different approach than Hybrid’s AirLander, using a low-pressure ...

Using ballast to manage an airship just gives you more headaches than anything else," said Pevzner. The solution: the Aeroscraft, a heavier-than-air vehicle, unlike traditional airships ...

The Pentagon has helped fund Aeroscraft, an airship concept led by Russian-born Igor Pasternak. It’s based on a system that controls buoyancy by pumping helium into tanks under high pressure.