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The craft in the news today mixes aero lift with helium lift, and claim that it "can stay in place on the ground as it is loaded, unloaded or refueled"
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/airlander_10_hybrid_airship/
Admittedly their main customer wasn't unloading anything at remote locations (it was carrying surveillance equipment) so we don't know if it can fully unload all 10 tonnes in that mode - but that was the claim.