Dear Airsteader,
until I have found the time to concentrate knowledge about Airsteading in this blog feel free to learn more about this exciting topic:
This is the Wikipedia article about the largest airship ever built:
This is the Wikipedia article about the only "flying aircraft carrier". The US military airship USS Akron had four Sparrowhawk fighter planes aboard that could be dropped mid-flight. To land on the mothership, they were equipped with a hook.
Here is an article about the now-defunct CargoLifter Inc., one of the few undertakings to revive the airship industry in the past 20 years. Founded in 1996 they worked on a heavy lifting airship but until bankruptcy in 2002, they only developed a balloon that is able to lift 60 tons.
I hope the links above can provide an introduction to Airsteading and airships. I will add some articles of my own soon to condense the existing knowledge about airships to give an exhausting overview of what is going on right now and what happened so far.
