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August 29, 2011

Alaskans dust off an old idea for roadless hauling: blimps

  • Discovery Air plans to buy 45 lighter-than-air vehicles and put them into commercial use as early as 2014.
    • By KYLE HOPKINS
    Anchorage Daily News

    AP Photo/Discovery Air Innovations [enlarge]
    This rendering shows a hybrid air vehicle at an Arctic oil rig. Airships are being considered as an alternative to barges or roads to supply remote Alaskan villages, mines, logging camps or construction sites.

    ANCHORAGE — You're looking at that picture of bulbous airships descending on an arctic oil rig and we know what you're thinking. Stick with us.


     
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