COVERAGE: The Cool Down - Company places $50 million order to build aircraft like nothing we've seen before: 'The sky is no longer the limit'
Gabriel Holton, April 23, 2025
Since the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, commercial airship travel has slowed to the point that it almost does not exist anymore. A select few companies use airships for advertising purposes, but recent years have not been favorable to bringing airships back for commercial use — until now.
Straightline Aviation, a hybrid airship company, has partnered with another aviation company, AT² Aerospace, an offshoot of Lockheed Martin, to build the world's first cargo airship, which will usher in a new era of cargo shipping.
