The large pioneering Bullet 580 is a 71.6 mt long and about 20 mt wide ship which can lift up to 900kg, up to 6000mt in the air.
The amazing thing about this incredibly large air ship (the biggest since the Hindenburg disaster over 70 years ago), is that the air ship can be powered by algae fuel.
The £ 5.5 million craft can be operated remotely or by a crew, and can hover over an area a week at a time, something neither a plane nor a satellite can do. This could prove to be interesting for monitoring things such as oil spills (like the Gulf of Mexico) or pirates in the Somalian seas.
Tony Piccolo – Aquatic Biofuels Specialist, Rome-Italy
Aquatic Biofuel Specialist
