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Airships could fight food insecurity in the North rea


Misc CDN | 206905 hits | Apr 07 5:26 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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The company re-selling Lockheed Martin hybrid airships presented at the Nunavut Mining Symposium this week. Hybrid Enterprises envisions many more uses for a fleet of airships, including cargo shipping as a way to lower the cost of food in the North.

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  1. by avatar GreenTiger
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:29 pm
    There could be a real future in this . The Hindenburg crash was a long time ago and the safety issues have been resolved.

  2. by avatar GreenTiger
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:29 pm

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 1:47 pm
    It is a really good idea.

  4. by Thanos
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 2:08 pm
    Depends. If a heavier-than-air aeroplane can't make it against some of those northern winds without getting shredded or knocked down then a lighter-than-air vessel wouldn't stand a chance. This sounds like a great idea in theory that suddenly reveals a massive flaw on it's first encounter with reality, i.e. a sudden hundred KPH Arctic wind that drops the temperature down to -50 C. Not a lot of predicatably good or calm days to count on up there to make this immediately viable.

  5. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:33 pm
    With shorter and shorter seasons for winter roads, these would be great for resupplying fly in communities in Canada's near north. Wind isn't usually a problem here in the bush.

  6. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:37 pm
    It's a good idea unless the government has to get involved.

  7. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:52 pm
    "N_Fiddledog" said
    It's a good idea unless the government has to get involved.



  8. by avatar Hyack
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:00 pm
    "N_Fiddledog" said
    It's a good idea unless the government has to get involved.


    Truer words have never been spoken..... :roll: :roll:

  9. by avatar Tyler_1
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:13 pm
    I am so happy I saw this. Now if one of those fatties ever floats over our house I won't get my hopes up thinking it's an Alien Invasion.
    TGIF :D

  10. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:14 pm
    Well if it involves resupplying native communities, then the government will be involved.

  11. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:20 pm
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    Well if it involves resupplying native communities, then the government will be involved.


    Here's a radical idea: Why not have them move to someplace easier to supply or else let them be 'sovereign' and don't supply them at all?

  12. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:24 pm
    Because interfering is racist and non interference is racist.

  13. by avatar herbie
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:54 pm
    "N_Fiddledog" said
    It's a good idea unless the government has to get involved.

    In what way? Like locking up the world's helium supply?

  14. by avatar 2Cdo
    Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:23 pm
    "herbie" said
    It's a good idea unless the government has to get involved.

    In what way? Like locking up the world's helium supply

    Financial over-runs, inconsistent service, etc.



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