icelandair

Icelandic airship plan ready for lift off

Icelandair Cargo is to set up a partnership with US-based Aeroscraft corporation to develop transport by airship in the Arctic region. Aeroscraft is developing a new design of airship that can control its own buoyancy, capable of handling heavy payloads but without the need to add or jetison ballast as with existing airship designs. The two partners would deliver standard containers via a hub in Iceland to destinations such as Greenland, ... [+]