Igor Pasternak

Igor Pasternak
Born
Igor Pasternak

1964 (age 59–60)[1][2]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLviv Polytechnic National University
Occupation(s)Aviation entrepreneur, engineer, inventor
Years active1986 - Present[2]
Known forWorldwide Aeros Corp (also referred as Aeros)
Websiteaeroscraft.com

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b "Airship producer Igor Pasternak building blimps for whole world (GRAPHICS)". Kyiv Post.
  3. ^ a b "Immigrant engineer ready for zeppelins to take off". The Seattle Times. 15 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Documentary short: "Inventing a Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft"". The New Yorker Channel on YouTube.
  5. ^ Harris, Mark (26 May 2017). "Revealed: Sergey Brin's secret plans to build the world's biggest aircraft". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "Helium Dreams". The New Yorker. 22 February 2016.
  7. ^ Witz, Billy (10 November 2014). "Pursuing a Shipping Revolution as Big as His Airship". The New York Times.
  8. ^ a b "This Huge Zeppelin Could Revolutionize The Shipping Industry". Business Insider.
  9. ^ "Aeros gains airworthiness certificate for new hybrid airship". Flight Global.
  10. ^ "Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle". The Register.
  11. ^ "A behind the scenes look at the project to build a radical new airship that could soon criscross our skies". BBC.
  12. ^ "Aeros patents cargo airship technology". Intelligent Aerospace.
  13. ^ "Blim Taking Flight". Los Angeles Business Journal. 7 May 2000.