This 400 foot long, all-weather airship, carrying radar, could conduct 30 day patrols with a crew of 15. In 1989, the Soviet Union began working on a disk shaped airship capable of lifting several hundred tons. The Soviets hope to have a smaller version flying by 1993. The ever popular Goodyear blimp. A one-person personal airship classified as an Ultralight, manufactured by World Wide Aero.
Today there are many airships flying, mostly for advertisement.
Unlike the dinosaur which cannot come back, the airship can. With economic and environmental issues becoming more prominent each year, researchers are looking more and more at bringing back airships by the hundreds. An airship can fly all day using the amount of fuel a 747 uses taxiing to the runway. Compared to other aircraft, noise and air pollution would be greatly reduced. The cost of transporting cargo would be more economical.