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Cargo
Airship Systems
Av-Intel's cargo airships will use a
'belly racking' system where the
load or containers are held
externally and closely attached to a
platform rack system. This
method will employ physical load and
ballast transfer containers, with
the airships operating at all times
close to neutral buoyancy.
Av-Intel fills large market niche
between standard airlift &
surface (Truck, Rail, Ship)
haulage
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3 to 4 times faster
than surface modes; 35% to 60%
cheaper than cargo aircraft
n10%
of Global Maritime & 30% of Air
Container Traffic
would switch to
Cargo Airships.
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Equates to a $20
billion market in 2006
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cCommercial
Communications
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Large global wireless markets where
satellites or
ground systems are not economical
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One-half of global population never
heard a dial tone
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Airship as ‘Tall Tower’ or ‘Low
Satellite’ to provide
affordable cellular service within a 600-mile circular
region
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High Profile Advertising
Av-Intel 700-Foot Airship is 3X
Longer than the largest blimp; 10x
Message Surface area
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Visual LED displays
integrated into airship hull for
spectacular messaging and best recall value
Barco’s Modular Intelligent LED
Pixel Block (MiPIX) being
investigated and appears ideal
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Creates ‘Intelligent’
lighting effects on large scale
(airship hull) backdrops
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Av-Intel's airship, capable of
carrying 80-tons of net payload, will cost
approximately $15 million in production.
Av-Intel's Cargo Airship System (CAS) is
a very large
heavy
payload
lighter-than-air
(LTA) airship, similar in
construction to modern blimps, but long and slender
similar to the design shape of the early cigar-shaped
dirigibles.
By extending the length of
a modern blimp by at least two times the “middle body”
increase can amount to a 400% increase in payload
capability yet without increasing power required. In
simple terms, the overall drag is only slightly effected
by lengthening due to increased laminar drag, which in
the comparison of “short to long” amounts only to a few
miles per hour (mph) difference in cruise speed, but
huge gains in payload capability.
The CAS is a “blimp-like” but resembles a
dirigible of past history. It has the advantages of
modern aerospace; structural and “blimp-like” safety
characteristics. Can be built in very large sizes: 40
tons to over 500 tons payload, and since “CAS” comprises
inflatable pressure envelopes is inexpensive -- as much
as 5 times less expensive per unit of haulage than
any other form of cargo aircraft. (ref; FEDEX – CAS
cost: 11 cents per ton mile).
This prototype CAS vehicle will be
comprised of a row of modular
cylindrical helium-filled
pressure envelope
sections whereby all
aerodynamic, structural and gust loads and
stresses are absorbed at the intersections of
these
cylindrical sections. As
such, the entire vehicle acts as a
multiple shock absorber
that accommodates compression, tension, and torsion
moments and satisfies modern requirements for safety.
This resolves the major inherent design failure
of all past rigid dirigibles.
Av-Intel already has a validated design and is prepared
to complete the critical design leading to the
development, build, and flight test of the 80-ton
payload demonstration vehicle. The program involves
four phases:
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Development of the objective air vehicle critical design
based on system / operational
requirements and the concept of operations.
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Simulations, design tradeoffs, and risk
reduction.
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Manufacture and systems integration of
the demonstration vehicle.
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Flight test, FAA
certification, and operational testing and evaluation. |
