Technically, the CL 160 is seen as the modern answer to the country’s famous zeppelins, which plied the German skies between Berlin and Lake Constance in the early part of the 20th century. Government officials and Cargolifter executives heavily promoted the project both domestically and abroad. CL160 was a very large semi-rigid airship to be built in Germany by the start-up Cargolifter, but funding ran out in 2002 after a massive hangar was built. To build up to 50 CL160-airships by 2015 and. Politicians long hoped that the Cargolifter project would provide a needed boost to the economy in the eastern state of Brandenburg. An abandoned old Soviet military airbase in Brand-Briesen was used to build the production and operation center. The CargoLifter CL 160 is a semi-rigid airship under development by CargoLifter AG, a German company that plans to build airships capable of carrying. The German company for the CL160 CargoLifter followed Mr. The hangar for production and operation of the CL160 and engineering team. Designers are to aeronautical engineers as architects are to structural engineers.
development of a heavy lift airship, the CL1604, designed to carry. for commercial, security and "homeland defense" purposes.īut Cargolifter has been unable to secure government aid or a private round of financing to keep the CL 160 project afloat.įriday’s news led to an eight percent decline in Cargolifter shares, which closed at 1.30 euro ($1.20), down from a high of 23 euro ($21). Eventually, in 1996 it was sold to Cargolifter, a German company founded in. CargoLifter AG: Based in Germany, CargoLifter AG was created to offer logistical.
aerospace giant Boeing for the joint development of "lighter-than-air" vehicles for use in the U.S. Cargolifter’s chief director, Carl von Gablenz, said on Friday he was planning layoffs, and that the Brandenburg-based company would shift its focus to the manufacture and sales of smaller transport balloons.Īs many as 500 jobs are said to be on the line at the company, which has been plagued by financial problems for months now as it has developed the CL 160 blimp.Įarlier this month, Cargolifter struck a deal with U.S.
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