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    Sergey Brin's Secret Zeppelin

    Reports about the Google co-founder’s dirigible project are a reminder that the romance of pre-aviation futurism is, somehow, still alive.
    by Adrienne LaFrance Apr 27, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Library of Congress

    Being a billionaire means sometimes having a secret side-project big enough to necessitate an actual NASA hangar. That appears to be the case for the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, anyway.

    Brin is building a huge airship inside of Hangar 2 at the NASA Ames Research Center, , but it’s unclear whether the covert project is a business effort, a very impressive hobby, or something else. (Brin didn’t respond to my request for an interview. “Sorry, I don't have anything to say about this topic right now,” he told in an email.)

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