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The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)

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The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley::As dawn breaks over Silicon Valley, the world is getting its first look at Pathfinder 1, a prototype electric airship that its maker LTA Research hopes

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[-] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Pathfinder 1 is only built at 1:10 scale though, so it's actually much larger than Cargolifter.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

The article states Pathfinder 1 is 124 m long, but does not say that its a 1:10 model. However, Cargolifter CL160 would have been 260 m long.

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