The Git-style workflow is super clever. How do teams typically collaborate around it? For example, can multiple people work on different branches of the same agent (visual and code), or is the sync more linear?
Remote pilot like a military drone operator! If a vehicle misbehaves, worst case scenario would be a total control failure (will definitely have redundancies designed in), which would result in the airship slowly…
The final one we're building will be 60 feet and have a 650lb payload, so would have to be an ultralight house! And you'd also need a place to park a 60'x20' airship. Or I suppose you could just keep it in the air?…
We have a pretty cool plan for managing icing that I can't talk about here because of IP disclosure. In general we don't think icing will be an unsolvable problem.
We anticipate these will have operating bases with lifting gas storage tanks, hangars, tiedowns, etc. The hybrid design we're using doesn't need ballast because the total vehicle mass is heavier than air. In…
These are awesome questions! Here's a couple answers: 1) We're building our full size airship to fly at 60 mph, which increases the usability in inclement weather. 2) Joe answered this in another comment, but our…
The economics on small airships only work if they're unmanned, and now is pretty much the best time ever to develop unmanned aircraft.
We're not planning to build something that's 600 feet long and costs hundreds of millions, we're building something that's 60 feet long and costs hundreds of thousands. Unmanned blimps of this size don't require the…
This is exactly where we think the big market opportunity is!
A bored or malicious person will definitely be able to shoot our airships. The nice part about an airship is that if you shoot it with a gun, the hole will be small so it will take a long time for the gas to leak out.…
The goal is to make them completely autonomous, though a pilot observer will likely be required for the near future. Business model is something we're still figuring out. We have interest on both sides, but at first…
A fleet for autonomous search and rescue would be awesome.
We haven't filed for a BVLOS waiver yet, that's something we're planning to do in the next couple months. Full scale version will be unmanned.
The inclement weather where our airships have the biggest advantage is in fog or limited visibility due to autonomy hardware/software in geographies with traditionally VFR approaches. Based on our experiences flying our…
It depends. For example, small planes need runways to take off and land, and if the crosswinds are over 15 kts they aren't able to operate. In this same situation, our airships would be able to take off and land because…
The Git-style workflow is super clever. How do teams typically collaborate around it? For example, can multiple people work on different branches of the same agent (visual and code), or is the sync more linear?
Remote pilot like a military drone operator! If a vehicle misbehaves, worst case scenario would be a total control failure (will definitely have redundancies designed in), which would result in the airship slowly…
The final one we're building will be 60 feet and have a 650lb payload, so would have to be an ultralight house! And you'd also need a place to park a 60'x20' airship. Or I suppose you could just keep it in the air?…
We have a pretty cool plan for managing icing that I can't talk about here because of IP disclosure. In general we don't think icing will be an unsolvable problem.
We anticipate these will have operating bases with lifting gas storage tanks, hangars, tiedowns, etc. The hybrid design we're using doesn't need ballast because the total vehicle mass is heavier than air. In…
These are awesome questions! Here's a couple answers: 1) We're building our full size airship to fly at 60 mph, which increases the usability in inclement weather. 2) Joe answered this in another comment, but our…
The economics on small airships only work if they're unmanned, and now is pretty much the best time ever to develop unmanned aircraft.
We're not planning to build something that's 600 feet long and costs hundreds of millions, we're building something that's 60 feet long and costs hundreds of thousands. Unmanned blimps of this size don't require the…
This is exactly where we think the big market opportunity is!
A bored or malicious person will definitely be able to shoot our airships. The nice part about an airship is that if you shoot it with a gun, the hole will be small so it will take a long time for the gas to leak out.…
The goal is to make them completely autonomous, though a pilot observer will likely be required for the near future. Business model is something we're still figuring out. We have interest on both sides, but at first…
A fleet for autonomous search and rescue would be awesome.
We haven't filed for a BVLOS waiver yet, that's something we're planning to do in the next couple months. Full scale version will be unmanned.
The inclement weather where our airships have the biggest advantage is in fog or limited visibility due to autonomy hardware/software in geographies with traditionally VFR approaches. Based on our experiences flying our…
It depends. For example, small planes need runways to take off and land, and if the crosswinds are over 15 kts they aren't able to operate. In this same situation, our airships would be able to take off and land because…