Mammoth-sized blimps may work well as advertising tools, but soon they could be doing a lot more work than that. Aerospace and defense corporation Boeing and Canadian company SkyHook International are working together to create a 302-foot-long airship with rotors that can haul heavy loads—double the capacity of the biggest helicopter—across remote regions at a lower fuel and environmental cost.
Straight to the point... Selective logging is a hell of a lot better then forest felling. The advert has to appeal to the market, ie. companies with money, like airlines. or more likely crane and cargo companies, With up coming technology, micro carbon tubing etc, 300ft long, imagine the surface area, that would be like a solar painted panel the size of a foot ball field, there shouldn't be any need for fuel, it could fly forever well during the day and maybe they will have weight to spear for batteries to fly at night, who knows. The applications for this could be endless, one that comes to mind could be building skyscrapers, super structures (anchored in a similar fashion as a drilling ship or barge) and even rented to carry a container of supplies for the red cross, I be leave its a good idea, how ever big surface vehicle will need a lot of respect to control nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel, i hope they succeed.
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