Our Project & Philosophy

In the 21st century, when we have successfully launched human beings into orbit and sent spacecraft like Cassini on a 20-year mission to Saturn, 750 million miles from home, somehow we have convinced ourselves that reviving Lighter-than-Air technology (LTA) is a nearly impossible task, like building the pyramids of Giza.

After nearly 90 years, at least 10 failed LTA programs, and over $2 billion in investment, no one has succeeded in duplicating what the German Zeppelin Company did in only 40 years using inferior materials, an explosive lift gas, 1930s diesel engines with wooden propellers, no accurate weather prediction, no GPS, and a much smaller budget.

This is an absurd reality; after all, it’s not like we’re dealing with an alien technology no human has used before.

It’s time to change this paradigm.

The Goal

Our goal is not only the revival of Lighter-than-Air technology, also known as LTA, but also its acceptance and use globally as a viable alternative to trucking, rail, airfreight, and shipping by vessel.

While LTA encompasses at least 4 types of aircraft (i.e., hot air balloons, blimps, prototypes, and airships), we are specifically focusing on aircraft in the “airship” class because this class, due to its efficiency advantages, possesses the greatest market application and profit potential.

  • For a deeper dive into LTA’s efficiency advantages, visit our “LTA Efficiency Stats” webpage.
  • Visit our “Markets” webpage for a deeper dive into market application.
  • For a deeper dive into profitability, see our video presentation “Profitability” available on our “Pitch Deck” webpage.

What is an Airship?

For an LTA aircraft to be considered part of the elite “airship” class, it must possess certain minimum design characteristics and capabilities.

For example, an airship must have the same basic design components used in modern shipbuilding, such as a strong keel, independent watertight compartments (for an airship: multiple airtight gas cells), and a double hull (for an airship: gas cells plus outer cover).

These basic elements provide strength and resiliency, enabling the ship to withstand harsh weather conditions, especially in the North Atlantic, where the weather can be the most unforgiving.

  • For a deeper dive into German airship design, see our video presentation “Airship Design 101” available on our “Pitch Deck” webpage.

In addition to the design elements, an LTA aircraft in the airship class must also possess the capability to transport passengers or cargo, thousands of miles nonstop in all types of weather, day or night.

These standards were set by the professionals of the German Zeppelin Company, the only successful LTA program in history, when they built 140 airships and operated them over a 40-year period in the early 1900s, transporting the first passengers and cargo across continents, oceans, and around the world by air.

There are many myths held today about the fate of the German Zeppelin airship program, with one of the prominent being that the Germans gave up on their technology.

This could not be further from the truth.

  • For a deeper dive into 8 of the most prominent myths believed about LTA, see our video presentation “Myths of LTA” available on our “Pitch Deck” webpage.

  • To understand why the German Zeppelin airship program was interrupted in the 1940s, see our video presentation “Lighter-than-Air: A Technology Frozen in Time,” available on our “Pitch Deck” webpage.

Today’s misclassification of anything lighter-than-air and steerable as an airship is due to our lowered expectations, which are a byproduct of our disappointment in the many failed airship programs since the Hindenburg disaster in 1937.

This is why many LTA enthusiasts mistakenly refer to blimps and prototypes as airships.

It’s our position that there are at least 4 LTA classifications:

  • Hot air balloons
  • Blimps
  • Prototypes
  • Airships

The reason we make this important distinction is to clarify the differences between the classes, as the airship class of the future will far outperform the Zeppelins of the 1900s by exhibiting capabilities the professionals of the German Zeppelin Company could not have dreamed of in their day.

Our Philosophy—Why it’s Different

Since the Hindenburg disaster, there have been no fewer than 10 failed LTA programs, which were funded by private and public entities consuming more than $2 billion in investment capital.

All failed LTA programs have 4 things in common:

  • They ignored the success of the German Zeppelin airship program.
  • Produced a defective airship design.
  • A lack of experience with the technology.
  • Limited market vision.

As a result of ignoring the Germans’ success with LTA, each of the failed programs had to begin at square one, effectively resulting in the most expensive path to production.

  • For a deeper dive into the failed LTA programs, visit our “3 Prototypes” webpage as well as our video presentation “LTA Today” available on our “Pitch Deck” webpage.

We have a different philosophy.

Because we recognize and acknowledge the success of the German Zeppelin airship program, we are seeking to revive, not reinvent, LTA.

For this reason, we have spent several years researching and studying their design and methods of operation as well as the failed LTA programs.

Consequently, our design closely mimics the Hindenburg, which was the German Zeppelin Company’s most advanced design.

In simple terms, we are bringing their best design into the 21st century using modern build materials, advanced 3D design, and today’s manufacturing to produce a stronger, lighter, more capable airship.

This is the most sensible and economical method for reviving LTA and one that has the best guarantee of success.

  • For a deeper dive into our design, visit our “New Design” webpage.

What About Funding the Project?

A common misconception is that anyone endeavoring to revive LTA must have access to millions of dollars in capital before undertaking the venture.

This is not the case.

All great enterprises begin with a single individual, an idea, and a plan that’s initially financed by the innovator’s own bank account.

There are many contemporary examples of this path to success: Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, and Microsoft, to name a few.

Take Amazon, for example, which in 2026 has a market capitalization of approximately $2.56 trillion, making it the world’s 5th most valuable company.

In the early 1990s, it was started in a garage by Jeff Bezos and bootstrapped until he could secure funding from other investors.

And Dell Computer Corporation, which Michael Dell started in his garage in 1984 and today has a market capitalization of $255 billion.

These are all examples of how American capitalism works.

For us the journey started in 2012 when my coworkers and I began brainstorming a problem we were experiencing as government contractors.

In 2016, we jumped into the project full-time, bootstrapping our way until we were able to raise capital from friends, family, our business network, and eventually crowdfunding.

Today, we are poised to finish our 3D design phase and begin raising capital for the build of our first, full-scale, fully capable airship.

Unlike Jeff Bezos, who had to seek investment from the institutional investors of his day, we have the benefit of crowdfunding, which provides access to a much larger global community of investors.

Crowdfunding gives the small investor the opportunity to invest in very lucrative startups, with the single largest crowdfunding campaign to date raising over $4 billion.

Where Should I Go Next?

Our website contains a wealth of information on the rich history of Lighter-than-Air Technology (LTA) as well as the role it will play in the future.

You can easily navigate our website using the menu bar at the top as well as the footer menu at the bottom.

The sections on our homepage cover varying topics such as the history of LTA, its efficiency advantages, potential customers, as well as new concepts not discussed anywhere else.

For a deep dive into LTA’s efficiency advantages, visit our “LTA Efficiency Stats” webpage.

There are over 30 video presentations and movies on our “Pitch Deck” webpage, which answer virtually every question or concern you may have about LTA.

Visit the “New Design” webpage to see our carefully planned airship design, which closely mimics the Hindenburg, the German Zeppelin Company’s most advanced design.

The “Markets” webpage presents 6 markets LTA will impact and why; we have identified more than 30 in total.

Be sure to check out our “Invest” webpage, as we will be launching another crowdfunding campaign in the next few months.

Together we can make the revival of LTA a reality.

Lighter-than-Air technology will prove itself the most efficient and profitable form of transportation in the 21st century, beating all other modes in time and fuel economy and by providing a unique passenger experience.