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Article By Adam Minter Photo credit: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images With China’s help, huge, balloon-like craft could revolutionize air transport. Just don’t call them blimps. When a massive helium-filled airship designed by Flying Whales, a French manufacturer, takes to the air for the first time in 2021, it won’t be against the backdrop of the Eiffel […]
By Dr. William Oliver Hedgepeth An airship, often referred to as a hybrid, is a helium-filled winged structure. The airship’s wings perform exactly like an airplane’s wings; they give the airship lift when it moves forward. But the airship does not require a runway or an airport to take off and land. It requires only […]
Transportation is now the biggest single source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, having recently passed electricity generation. Worse, zero-carbon transportation technology is only in its early stages — especially for air travel and shipping, which accounts for large and growing share of emissions. Steampunk fans and climate hawks alike want to know: what about airships? […]
Airships were initially considered safer and more capable than airplanes. It wasn’t just the Hindenburg that changed all that. By HUNTER DERENSIS • October 23, 2018 Photo Credit: SDASM Archives/Flickr In today’s world, there are over 100,000 commercial airline flights every day and on rare occasion a small, tacky, promotional blimp. That’s made it unthinkable that lighter-than-air […]
Each year, temporary roads or winter roads are created in the north of most Canadian provinces to connect the most isolated communities. Ice Road Photo: Government of Manitoba A text by Rémi Authier Every winter, since the 1950s, thousands of kilometers of roads have been created in the north of the country. The roads of […]
By: Martin Cash Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 24, 2017 Barry Prentice, the supply chain management professor at the University of Manitoba, is hard-headed when it comes to the justification of investment in transportation infrastructure. “I always tell my students the three most important words in transportation are utilization, utilization […]
By: Barry Prentice Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 22, 2013 A11 Your editorial (Everyone should have food security, Feb.1) makes an important connection between transportation and health. The urban food deserts are linked to higher rates of diabetes because some residents cannot afford the travel costs to reach a large grocery […]
By: Joseph Quesnel Republished from the Winnipeg Sun print edition September 20, 2013 First Nations in northern Manitoba are finally seriously considering another solution to deal with their isolation. The next wave of the future for transporting goods to the north still might be in airships and hybrid air vehicles. A group of northern First […]
By: Barry Prentice Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 22, 2013 A11 A proposal to build an ice road from Churchill to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, has been presented with the endorsement of both federal and provincial politicians (Nunavut link down the road? March 23). Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation Minister, Steve Ashton, is […]
Airships will offer a competitive advantage by Glenn J. Scott, March 13th, 2012 Northern Canadian communities have long suffered from an unreliable food supply, low-quality perishable food items and extraordinarily high costs. As recently as 2011, it was reported that residents of the High Arctic community of Arctic Bay, Nunavut were paying as much as […]
