Announcements

September 24, 2007

Ground level manouvering tests.

We have just completed the test flights for the scale version of the Voyager Airship. The Voyager Airship is a 19-passenger craft, purpose designed for sightseeing rides. As expected, the airship was extremely maneuverable and is able to perform VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landings). Steering and altitude controls are activated with a joystick, making the pilot's workload very light.

Flight testing

August 1,2007

Our latest airship is now ready to take flight. This distinctive looking airship is a two-seater, scaled-down version of our 19-passenger, sightseeing airship. It will act as a test platform for the many systems, with new and advanced standards, that we are incorporating into our airships.

Although this elongated-shaped airship has stabilizing fins, there are no moving surfaces such as rudders and elevators. Steering and altitude controls are affected by directed thrust from the engines, a system developed and patented by 21st Century Airships Team Inc. The main advantage of this new system is that it allows the airship to be highly manoeuverable at any speed from 0 to full. This airship has no elevator wheel or rudder pedals. Instead it is simply controlled with a joy-stick.

Test flights are scheduled to begin mid August 2007 near Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. After the initial test flights are completed, the airship will be used for demonstrations, as well as for collecting data for the ongoing Type Certification of our 19-passenger, sightseeing airship.

September 20, 2005

21st Century Airships Team Inc. Creates the World's Largest Soccer Ball

Seated inside a soccer ball that is 19-meter, in diameter, pilots Hokan Colting and Tim Buss today completed a 10-day trial program for a one-of-a-kind airship. One million
times larger in volume than a regular soccer ball and powered by four engines, the unusual airship was swarmed by curious spectators every time it landed at its base just north of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

The spherical airship has been developed and patented by 21st Century Airships Team Inc. As a multi-use platform, its applications range from advertising to high-altitude military surveillance and communications. Earlier prototypes have reached altitudes higher than any of today's traditional cigar-shaped blimps and hold current altitude world records for airships. They are also the world's only amphibious airships, capable of landing and taking-off from water.

June 30, 2004

21st Century Airships Team Inc. successfully demonstrates the ability of its SA-60 airship for the U.S. Navy and civilian government agencies during flights at St. Mary's airport, near Washington, D.C.

June 2003

Flying a 21st Century Airships prototype, CEO Hokan Colting and co-pilot Tim Buss set an airship record for height, reaching 6,234 meters (20,450 feet) on June 12, 2003, while flying between Alberta and Saskatchewan. (Certified by F�d�ration A�ronautique Internationale the governing body for aviation and space world records. See photo below.

Tim Buss, left, and Hokan Colting flying to record heights over Alberta.