Demo to Dr. Silke Launert (State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space) and Petra Olschowski (Minister of Science, Research, and the Arts for Baden-Württemberg)

Lighter-than-Air Day, organized by the Initiative Leichter als Luft e.V.

Airships don’t land on legs. 💨 They’d be blown away by the wind quickly. This is why, so far, we always had to catch our looncraft with two people - one at the nose and one at the tail. This ground crew then had to constantly reposition the looncraft into the wind direction. 🚩 By introducing Mooring Mode, a single person can now catch the looncraft at its nose … and chill 😎 . The tail will freely move with the wind while the system actively controls its altitude. An important step further...