Dynalifters avoid the operational drawbacks of a traditional airship associated with takeoff, landing, and ground operations. The conventional airship is difficult to handle on the ground. It requires a large number of people to grab lines during landing, or it must use equipment of some sort to “catch” the airship and attach it to a mooring mast.
The Dynalifter avoids many of these problems [with airships] because it isn’t “lighter-than-air”.
del.icio.us – Aerospace
digg – Aerospace
technorati – Aerospace
So…we heard this craft was going to fly in the spring of 2006…what happened???…
Uncleo,
I guess they’ve completed a number of full-helium taxi tests with some other tests in progress. No mention of actual flying.
There’s a little more info if you go to http://www.dynalifter.com and click on “progress”.