Here's another way to move stuff around the Arctic.
Skyhook International of Calgary, and Boeing, are cooperating to built a fleet of helicopter/dirigible hybrids to move heavy loads in areas where other transportation infrastructure is limited - like the Arctic: Dirigible to carry the load in Arctic development.
The picture at the right is an artist's conception of a Skyhook dirigible delivering a load to an Arctic oil drilling site. The Skyhook hybrid can carry 80,000 pounds about 200 miles.
Boeing will build them in Pennsylvannia, but "SkyHook will own, maintain and operate the craft...." Skyhook didn't say how much the airship would cost. The story notes that "The closest unit currently in existence today is a Chinook helicopter, which carries a price tag of about $50 million but only a fraction of the payload.
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