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“A Green Solution to Canada's Transport Challenge”
“A Green Solution to Canada’s Transport Challenge” “Airships to the Arctic V” Symposium Calgary October 2009 Introduction • The Hybrid Air Vehicles team have re-examined the basic principles behind Lighter-Than-Air Science and applied advanced modern technology and materials to this 100 year old concept. • The result is a range of revolutionary products with global market potential - demand is being driven, in particular, by changing environmental and defence requirements. • Hybrid Air Vehicles have taken the first steps in the creation of a major new, Low Carbon Emission, aerospace business. 2 Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd PROPRIETARY & PRIOR RIGHTS INFORMATION Notional 30 Ton Plant Module in Video Dimensions: Length: 45.m Height: 3.6m Width: 6.5m Weight: Scale: 30 tons In future a SkyCat 200 with a STOL payload of 200 tons, could do a “vertical” takeoff with 120 tons payload, plus 100 tons fuel, fly 2,500 nautical miles at 90KTAs and land vertically. 3 Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd PROPRIETARY & PRIOR RIGHTS INFORMATION Video: demonstrator test flights 4 Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd PROPRIETARY & PRIOR RIGHTS INFORMATION Corporate history The Technical Team has 35+ years experience and has built 20 airships, while R&D, manufacturing & operations spend has totalled more than $500m. Corporate “DNA” includes Airship Industries, Westinghouse & ATG/SkyCat Technologies - continuity of “Team”. 5 Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd PROPRIETARY & PRIOR RIGHTS INFORMATION HAV heritage HAV‟s Team has been responsible for design, manuf/assy, flight test, maintenance and operation of the majority of the programs on the previous slide, as well as being responsible for virtually all the certification flight testing and a substantial proportion (up until 1997) of the operation of these vehicles. -
Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) Skycat Peter Lobner, Updated 21 December 2020 1. Introduction the UK Firm Airship Industries M
Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) SkyCat Peter Lobner, Updated 21 December 2020 1. Introduction The UK firm Airship Industries manufactured conventional airships from 1980 to 1990 and was based in giant purpose-built hangars at Cardington, Bedford, which is a site historically associated with British airship production. Airship Industries went into receivership in 1990, with the new firm Airship Technologies emerging as the successor company, but not for long. Airship Technologies soon folded and was succeeded by the firm Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), which was led by Jeffery R (Roger) Munk. ATG became well known for two advanced airship projects: • A hybrid, heavy lift airship known as the Sky Catamaran, or “SkyCat” for short, started in about 1999. • A stratospheric High Altitude Platform (HAP) named “StratSat,” for delivering a range of communications and surveillance services from geo-stationary positions in the stratosphere, started in 2001. Both advanced projects led to the development and testing of sub- scale prototype airships and advanced designs for full-scale airships. ATG also offered a range of conventional, non-rigid blimps, but built only one AT-10 airship. World SkyCat Ltd. was created in July 1999 as the marketing and operating associate of ATG for the SkyCat range and was intended to be the launch customer for the first SkyCat hybrid airship. In spite of promising business prospects for the SkyCat on the US military HULA and WALRUS heavy cargo airship programs, ATG and World SkyCat failed to generate the financial commitments needed for SkyCat production. ATG also failed to capitalize on their first StratSat business opportunity in Malaysia. -
Airships to the Arctic IV Welcome
AIRSHIPS TO THE ARCTIC IV Making it Happen PROCEEDINGS Held in Winnipeg, MB October 29th-31st, 2007 Edited By: Dr. Barry E. Prentice Gary Wylie Dedicated in Honour of Hubert T. Kleysen, Entrepreneur The theme of the fourth Airships to the Arctic is “Making it Happen”. Thus, it is appropriate that this conference is dedicated to the entrepreneur. History is made by those who have the courage of their convictions to try something new and different. When they are successful, entrepreneurs improve all of society because they grow the economy and the choices of consumers. As the former Chairman and Owner of Kleysen Transport Ltd., Hubert T. Kleysen has been an outstanding entrepreneur and an innovator. During his long career he has been successful in trucking, railroad building, road building and operating an airline. He holds patents on the forklift of the 5th wheel, a tipping dumping system for unloading potash and sugar beets, and co-engineered an automated spiker for railroad track laying, - inventions recognized and honoured by transport Canada. Hubert T. Kleysen assumed control of the company in 1960, on the untimely death of the company‟s founder, Harry Kleysen. Hubert T. Kleysen expanded the company with innovative strategies for the carriage of bulk products. Kleysen Transport became a leader in the movement of sugar beets, cement, potash and nickel. He was also a pioneer with Canada Post in the shift of the national mail to truck movements. In the 1990s, Kleysen Transport built large distribution centers in Calgary and Edmonton to provide warehousing, overhead cranes, bulk hauling, oil field pipe and steel storage. -
Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) Stratsat Peter Lobner, 21
Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) StratSat Peter Lobner, 21 December 2020 1. Introduction The UK firm Airship Industries manufactured conventional airships from 1970 to 1990 and was based in giant purpose-built hangars at Cardington, Bedford, which is a site historically associated with British airship production. Airship Industries went into receivership in 1990, with the new firm Airship Technologies emerging as the successor company, but not for long. Airship Technologies soon folded and was succeeded by the firm Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), which was led by Jeffery R (Roger) Munk. ATG became well known for two advanced airship projects: • A hybrid, heavy lift airship known as the Sky Catamaran, or “SkyCat” for short, started in about 1999. • A stratospheric High Altitude Platform (HAP) named “StratSat” for delivering a range of communications and surveillance services from geo-stationary positions in the stratosphere started in 2001. Both advanced projects led to the development and testing of sub- scale prototype airships and advanced designs for full-scale airships. ATG also offered a range of conventional, non-rigid blimps, but only built one small AT-10 airship. World SkyCat Ltd. was created as the marketing and operating associate of ATG for the SkyCat range and was intended to be the launch customer for the first SkyCat 20. In spite of promising business prospects for the SkyCat on the US WALRUS and HULA heavy cargo airship programs, ATG and World SkyCat failed to generate the financial commitments needed for SkyCat production. Similarly, ATG failed to capitalize on their first StratSat business opportunity in Malaysia. As a consequence, ATG went into administration in 2005.