Google combined its two LA offices into a historic airplane hangar last year ... due to wartime shortages during World War II. It flew just once, for under a minute, in 1947.

"My father was here in World War II," Mr Lamont said ... a maintenance building, more hangars, and more aircraft. "It would be a dream [to have a Spitfire here]," Mr Lamont said.

The world's largest aircraft was unveiled in Silicon Valley yesterday, promising a new era in greener flight. The airship "floated silently" from its "WW2-era hangar" at Nasa’s Moffett Field ...