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| Company type | Airship Manufacturer, Airship Logistics Service Provider |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace, Aviation, Defense and Advanced Technologies, Air Logistics |
| Founded | 1987[1] |
| Founder | Igor Pasternak (Chairman, President & CEO) |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Igor Pasternak |
| Products | Aeroscraft, Sky Dragon Airship, Tactical Aerostats, Early Warning System |
| Divisions | Aeroscraft Corporation North American Defense Advanced Technology Solutions (NADATS) |
| Website | www |
Aeros Corp is an American manufacturer of airships based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1993 by the current CEO and chief engineer, Igor Pasternak, who was born in Soviet Kazakhstan, raised in Soviet Ukraine, and moved to the U.S. after the Soviet collapse to build airships there.[2] It currently employs more than 100 workers.[citation needed]
The company's current products are non-rigids aimed at both the military and commercial markets, including transport, surveillance, broadcasting and advertising. The company's best-selling ship is called the Sky Dragon.[3]
The company is also developing an Aeroscraft, a rigid airship with a number of innovative features, the most important of which is a method of controlling the airship's static lift, which can be reduced by pumping helium from the internal gasbags and storing it under pressure: conversely lift can be increased by re-inflating the gasbags using the stored gas.[4] The company has received $60 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop the concept,[5] resulting in a prototype named Dragon Dream which underwent systems tests and some tethered flights in late 2013. This prototype was subsequently damaged when part of the roof of the hangar at the former Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, in which it was constructed, collapsed on 7 October 2013.[6]
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- ^ "Worldwide Aeros Aims to Turn Blimps Into Cargo Craft". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg Businessweek. June 13, 2013. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
- ^ "Roof failure at Tustin base damages airship". Orange County Register. October 8, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2014.