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What do you get when you cross an airship and an airplane? If you’re willing to spend more than $4 million, you could get the Plimp hybrid aircraft that’s envisioned by Seattle-based Egan Airships.

The airship is back, and this time it means business. Egan Airships have kitted out their Plimp with wings, caged rotors, and self-flying tech. Take a closer look right here. Напишано од Phil ...

Maybe we don’t need a border wall, maybe we just need a fleet of airships. That’s the argument of two Seattle brothers, James and Joel Egan. They’re the co-founders of Plimp, a company that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What happens when you cross a blimp with a plane, and give it a few helicopter features? A ...

At first glance, it may look like a blimp - but in fact, the 'plimp' combines planes, blimps and helicopters in one. Its inventors hope a new version of the strange craft could be used to ferry ...

What do you get when you cross a plane with a blimp? A Plimp. That's not a joke, it's what the thing is actually called. Manufactured by Seattle-based Egan Airships, the 28-ft (8.5-m) unmanned ...

Twin brothers Joel and James Egan - Joel wears the glasses to the left - are launching their hybrid airship, called the Plimp, at the drone world's huge global convention in Las Vegas in early ...

Twin brothers Joel and James Egan - Joel wears the glasses to the left - are launching their hybrid airship, called the Plimp, at the drone world's huge global convention in Las Vegas in early ...

First of all, just how does the original Plimp drone work? Well, it's basically a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) blimp with two wings, each wing in turn equipped with an electric motor/propeller ...