The BlimpMaker (2016)

For the past forty years Igor Pasternak has pursued a lighterthanair vision to build gigantic airships that haul cargo to otherwise inaccessible parts of the planet In high school in Ukraine Pasternak formed an airship club at Lviv National University where he studied civil engineering he established an airshipdesign bureau Eventually he settled in southern California and started Aeros which builds blimps for surveillance and other purposes His prototype cargo airship the twohundredandsixtyfootlong Dragon Dream was destroyed in 2013 when its hangar collapsed on it Unfazed Pasternak now aims to produce a fleet of Aeroscraft cargo airships the largest of which will be more than nine hundred feet long and able to carry five hundred tons Pasternak spoke recently with the director and producer Gabe Polsky Polskys documentary Red Army played at the 2014 Cannes Telluride Toronto and New York Film Festivals and was released in theatres in 2015