Google co-founder Sergey Brin is secretly building his own giant airship inside a NASA hangar, Bloomberg reports today. The craft — which apparently looks like a classic zeppelin — is housed at NASA’s Ames research facility, the publication’s sources say, but it’s not clear whether the airship a prototype for a business venture, or just a passion project for the billionaire.
According to Bloomberg’s sources, Brin’s dirigible is not yet complete, but engineers have already built a metal frame that takes up much of the hangar. Google’s Planetary Ventures division gained access to the Ames facility in 2015, and started using its vast hangars as labs and test areas for new technologies, but the sources note that the airship isn’t a proper...
