Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Building Giant Airship — Is This The Future Of Google?

According to Bloomberg, Brin has been working on the airship for the past three years at the NASA Ames Research Center. Engineers have already constructed the metallic skeleton of the massive airship at Hangar 2 of the NASA research centre.

Brin has long been fascinated by airships and after ogling photos of the US Navy's USS Macon which was based at Ames in the 1930s.

The Macon along with its sister ship the USS Akron were one of the largest airships in the air when in service during the 1930s. Three years after it entered service, the Macon crashed into the ocean near Monterey Bay after running into a storm off Point Sur, California.

In charge of Brin's airship project is Alan Weston, the former director of programs at NASA Ames. Weston has spoken about the possibilities of airships to ferry freight commercially.

However, Brin has not revealed whether he intends to use the airship as a private venture or something that he wants to turn into a business.

Replying to Bloomberg's e-mail about the airship, Brin replied, "Sorry, I don't have anything to say about this topic right now."

Brin is not the only Google head to take to the air. His fellow co-founder of the world's largest search engine Larry Page conducted the first flight of his flying car project recently.