The idea is simple apparently: use an airship, take advantage of its spaciousness (compared with aircraft) and turn it into a pretty well-stocked humanitarian platform.
Instead of flying to a major airport at a huge city where supplies would have to be loaded onto trucks or helicopters to carry disaster relief, airship can fly directly to any location on earth and deliver humanitarian aid quickly to the exact place it is needed. Airships can deliver help to the most remote locations, even if roads are destroyed as in an earthquake, or flooding.
Are Airships Still a Danger?
Ever since the Hindenburg caused Herbert Morrison to exclaim “Oh, the humanity!“, people have been wary about airships. But the combustible hydrogen that helped the German airship burn so swiftly is no longer vogue in the airship world. People have long realized that Helium provides the same air buoyancy, without the flammability.
Yet the criticisms of airships remain. While they provide more cargo carrying capacity, they are slow (and supposedly require more fuel to move around at a decent speed). Still, if they have the ability to carry so much to help so many people, shouldn’t this initiative be given some consideration?
Source: environmentalgraffiti.com
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