Taking Flight.

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: May 8, 2000| Author: BELGUM, DEBORAH | Copyright information

WITH PRELIMINARY FAA APPROVAL, WORLDWIDE AEROS IS READY TO LAUNCH A LINE OF BLIMPS AND BECOME ONE OF THE FEW FIRMS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT MANUFACTURES GIANT AIRSHIPS

NOT too many kids say they want to grow up to be a blimp builder. But ever since Igor Pasternak was a teenager in Lvov, Ukraine, he had an obsession with those lighter-than-air machines that float gracefully through the sky.

"It is definitely some mental problem," Pasternak joked in his accented En...

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