The Journal

94 years have passed since that distant 25th of May 1928, when the airship Italia, one of the greatest successes of Italian technology and exploration, crashed on the ice.

Interview to George Land, Commercial Business Development Director at Hybrid Air Vehicles about the Airlander and the future of sustainable aviation through airships.

Experiential Travel will ignite the airship industry and provide an alternative in aviation. Discover in this article the vision of our CEO, Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck on the future of the Airship industry.

Extract from the participation of Dereck Joubert, award winning filmmaker, conservationist, National Geographic explorer and Founder at Great Plains Conservation, in the roundtable “The Revival of Airships” at ExpoDubai on November 11th 2021

OceanSky Cruises hosted the conference “The Revival of Airships:
Pioneering the new era of sustainable travel” on a roundtable that has taken place at the
Swedish Pavilion in ExpoDubai.

Airships are commonly compared to airplanes, probably because both are aerial vehicles. However, that’s where the similarities end. Airships are better compared to trains from a passenger’s perspective.

In the 20s, the flight of large airships was elitist and inaccessible to most. It seemed
to be the flying transposition of the luxury style of the transatlantic liners of the
past.

We interview Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck, OceanSky Cruises Founder and CEO, to talk abou his vision to fly the great airships again and to pioneer a new era of sustainable aviation.

Designed by Nobile and used by the Ellsworth-Amundsen expedition, the N-1 Norge was the first aircraft to overfly the North Pole in 1926.

Discover the life of Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, who was the first woman to fly on an airship, the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, in 1928.

Will we fly on airships or airplanes in a future of sustainable aviation? The answer will affect the direction of billions of dollars in future investments for aviation hardware and design.

Discover the history of the the world's first airline. On November16 1909, DELAG was established. Its first flight was with the airship LZ6.

Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck, CEO and Founder at OceanSky Cruises, explains in this article why airships can become a very safe travel option in the future.