Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google co-founder Sergey Brin is on an unlikely quest to bring airships back with his newest company, Lighter Than Air. But this nascent retrofuturistic space has a surprising number of competitors.
What Happened: Brin's firm is on a hiring spree of aerospace engineers in Silicon Valley and Akron, Ohio, a site famous for the Goodyear blimp, according to a Saturday Financial Times report.
