Flying Whales: Rigid Hybrid-Electric Airships and Strategic Heavy-Lift Logistics

Strategic analysis of Flying Whales and the LCA60T airship. Mapping autonomous heavy-lift capabilities, hybrid-electric propulsion, and sovereign mobility for infrastructure-poor theaters.

Flying Whales is a French aerospace innovator developing the LCA60T, a 200 m rigid hybrid-electric airship for delivering oversized cargo to remote or infrastructure-poor regions[1][2]. This heavy-lift solution can hover and unload payloads without runways, enabling point-to-point transport for forestry, construction, humanitarian or defense supplies, a…