The document discusses the potential for airships to revolutionize aviation and transportation. Airships offer several advantages over traditional airplanes such as lower emissions, not requiring existing infrastructure like runways, and being well-suited for cargo transport, especially to remote areas. Riders could experience long-distance travel with luxury amenities while having unique views of the landscapes below. The document outlines plans for using airships for cargo, passengers, and special purposes like disaster relief or scientific research to make transportation more sustainable and accessible worldwide.

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3. What does the future hold
for avia6on?

4. There is a gap between need and capacity.

5. Rising fuel costs and the growing
concern over carbon emissions will
shape the next 30 years of avia6on.

6. A recent J.D. Power study shows
customer sa6sfac6on with airlines at
an 8 year low.

7. What can reduce the
environmental impact of
avia6on?

8. As well as make flying
safer, healthier, affordable
and more enjoyable?

10. Airships Can

11. Airships are air vehicles that use a
lighter than air gas, such as hydrogen,
helium, for liM, rather than wings.

12. In addi6on they are capable of
powered flight and can control their
al6tude and direc6on of travel.

13. Like this.

14. And this.

15. The Zeppelins of the 30’s were one
order of magnitude more efficient
per ton mile than a 747.

16. Airships are beUer than road,
rail and shipping where the
infrastructure does not exist.

17. Places like the Canadian North, Russia,
China, Mongolia, India and Africa are
where airships will have their first best use.

18. They will be used to haul fuel and
supplies for resource extrac6on sites and
their companion towns.

19. Airships allow for development that is more
economical and less ecologically damaging.

20. Since they don’t need the infrastructure of rail,
road or airplanes, they are also the perfect
interface between rural and urban loca6ons.

21. Tomorrow the airship will come to pick
up our produce and craMs. We can now
sell directly to Europe, and get more
value for what we make.

22. Ok, it can haul cargo, but isn’t it too slow for passengers?

23. Slow is not about doing everything at a snail's pace;
it's about working, playing and living beUer by doing
everything at the right speed.

28. What’s flying in an airship like?

29. In an airship, you can smell where you are.

30. You can even hear the dogs barking below.

31. Stepping outside, you see the landscape around you.

32. I’m about to arrive in
Dubai, aMer a week of
traveling. I’ve seen so
much of the world in just
this one trip. Over the last
week I was able to become
accustomed to the ways of
Dubai, and even learn
some Arabic.

33. I met many friends during my stay
on board. We shared stories and
made plans to explore together.

35. AMer dinner I got on the overnight flight to New
York. I arrived 30 minutes before departure,
checked into my cabin and finished some last
minute work before going to bed.

36. I arrived in the morning refreshed
and ready for the big mee6ng.

37. “The airship turns the world
into an archipaelago of islands”
Ron Hochstetler

40. Vehicle Performance Specifica6ons
Zero emissions.
Advanced buoyancy control.
Stable in turbulence, and up to level 8 winds.
Modular.
Hydrogen liM gas.

41. Variable Density through shape.

47. Virtual Luggage

48. Order your clothes while booking your flight.

57. Free?

59. Business Model
Making it free to fly
Virtual luggage for convenience and light weight.
Airship Parts
Envelope – shape and material TBA, hopefully some sort of light weight rigid
shell –
Propulsion – jet or fan, solar electric? Hydrogen fuel cell engines.
LiMing Gas – hydrogen, helium or vacuum.
Buoyancy compensa>on
Gondola – materials, structure, space – carbon fibre
Ponies – water condenser, waterless bathroom, lightweight everything
through Aerogels, Bucky paper

60. Dock
integra6on with infrastructure – airport annex, or skyscraper addi6on, waterfront
or train sta6on
Accessibility
Customs
Baggage
Services
Maintenance facili6es
Other
Service
in‐flight experience
super business class – teleconference, work sta6ons, bar, lounge, private
quarters.
floa6ng spa – sauna, gym, tea parlour, restaurant, state rooms.
air‐cruise – sleeping quarters, ac6vi6es, facili6es, sight seeing capabili6es.

61. Spinoffs
Firefigh6ng
Disaster relief
Humanitarian aid
Mars explora6on
Oceanography
Arc6c explora6on
Jungle canopy research
Atmospheric monitoring

62. The en6re world fits into this.