Igor Pasternak | |
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| Born | Igor Pasternak 1964 (age 59–60)[1][2] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Lviv Polytechnic National University |
| Occupation(s) | Aviation entrepreneur, engineer, inventor |
| Years active | 1986 - Present[2] |
| Known for | Worldwide Aeros Corp (also referred as Aeros) |
| Website | aeroscraft |
Igor Pasternak is an American aviation entrepreneur,[3][4] inventor and engineer[5] specializing in designing and building airships.[6][7][1][8] He is best known as the founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp, an American manufacturer of airships based in Montebello, California and for his research on variable buoyancy control for airships.[9][10][11][8] Igor Pasternak is an advocate of the cargo airship industry[12] and lighter-than-air flight.[13][3]
- ^ a b Spaarwater, Esther (4 June 2010). "Blue Sky Thinking: Profiles of five innovative thinkers working in the transport industry today". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b "Airship producer Igor Pasternak building blimps for whole world (GRAPHICS)". Kyiv Post.
- ^ a b "Immigrant engineer ready for zeppelins to take off". The Seattle Times. 15 September 2013.
- ^ "Documentary short: "Inventing a Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft"". The New Yorker Channel on YouTube.
- ^ Harris, Mark (26 May 2017). "Revealed: Sergey Brin's secret plans to build the world's biggest aircraft". The Guardian.
- ^ "Helium Dreams". The New Yorker. 22 February 2016.
- ^ Witz, Billy (10 November 2014). "Pursuing a Shipping Revolution as Big as His Airship". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "This Huge Zeppelin Could Revolutionize The Shipping Industry". Business Insider.
- ^ "Aeros gains airworthiness certificate for new hybrid airship". Flight Global.
- ^ "Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle". The Register.
- ^ "A behind the scenes look at the project to build a radical new airship that could soon criscross our skies". BBC.
- ^ "Aeros patents cargo airship technology". Intelligent Aerospace.
- ^ "Blim Taking Flight". Los Angeles Business Journal. 7 May 2000.