Traditional airships use a cable and pulley system for directional movement, which is finicky at best, and leaves tremendous opportunity for error. When the Skunk Works® team began developing the next generation airship – the Hybrid Airship – for remote cargo transport nearly 20 years ago, they pulled knowledge from their Lockheed Martin fixed-wing brethren and built digital flight controls, or a fly-by-wire system, into the airship’s standard systems.
Learn more about the Hybrid Airship: http://lmt.co/29yhcY9
Source