Photos: The 'personal blimp' takes flight

Unlike larger, more rigid airships, Skyacht's design can be stored deflated, though still assembled. In flight, Alberto stretches to hold 205,000 cubic feet of air; deflated and folded, it shrinks to about 1,500 cubic feet--small enough to fit in a 24-foot car trailer.

[Editors' note: This caption originally used the wrong measurement unit for the aircraft's air volume. The correct unit is cubic feet.]

Photo by Skyacht Aircraft