Technology does not always look forward to advance. Sometimes it is necessary to review the past to recover ideas that failed because it was not their time. Almost a century since the airship disaster Hindenburg, which caught fire over New Jersey (USA) and killed 36 people. This accident relegated balloons to recreational or observation uses with small technologies. The European Commission and six defense ministries believe that it is time to recover these aircraft and have allocated 63.5 million euros to the EuroHAPS project (of English High-Altitude Platform Systems), which is already developing stratospheric demonstrators (prototypes to test all the systems of the future device) that give rise to steerable, ecological and recoverable balloons to improve communication capabilities and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. English). Spain will be the base for two of the models whose first flights are scheduled in a year.
