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Directed Fiction: Scanning the future with scenario prompts
Directed Fiction Defined: Directed fiction is a strategic foresight tool designed to simultaneously consider multiple plausible future...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 14, 2022
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Fantasy Airships: Hidden themes in movies, books, and video games
My upcoming novel, the Flight of the St. Paul, prominently features a modern Lockheed-Martin airship nearly 300 feet long with a cargo...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Dec 21, 2021
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Airships Making a Comeback: Solutions for Global Supply Chain Disruptions
Airships will return to the skies once again when the cost of building a modern airship is outweighed by the potential profits that will...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Dec 7, 2021
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How Airships Land
There are many ways an airship can land. They can be moored to a tower, towed inside a hangar, or land conventionally on the ground using...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 13, 2021
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Airship - Technology
(paid link) Airship Technology by Gabriel Alexander Khoury: OK, let's get serious about airships. My upcoming novel, The Flight of the...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 10, 2021
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Airship History - Combat
(paid link) The Zeppelin in Combat by Douglas H. Robinson: If you are truly passionate about airships like I am, then The Zeppelin in...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 10, 2021
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Disasters, Airships, and Insurance - Part 4
Disasters, Airships, and Insurance The development model that ties national and multi-national level funding to hybrid airship...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Disasters, Airships, and Insurance - Part 3
Innovative Funding Solutions Needed The funding required for developing, operating, and maintaining these large-scale technologies, if...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Disasters, Airships, and Insurance - Part 2
A Global Capabilities Demonstration Disaster management is international in scope by its very nature, and the critical message about...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Disasters, Airships, and Insurance - Part 1
The Problem: Both natural and human-caused disasters occur every year at locations all across the globe. Whether it is an earthquake in...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Helicopters & Hybrid Airships - Part 5
Potential Cultural Problem Areas While both Canada and the US tend to employ similar leadership styles, “individual differences will...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Helicopters & Hybrid Airships - Part 4
Air Trucking the Silk Road In China, the third largest country in the world, most of the population lives on just 30% of its territory....
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Helicopters & Hybrid Airships – Part 3
Peace and Freedom An idea for a disaster relief project in East and Central Africa aims to connect Uganda, the most globally linked...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Helicopters & Hybrid Airships – Part 2
Connect the North: Canada, second largest country in the world, has no year-round road over 80% of its territory. Winter “ice roads” are...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Helicopters & Hybrid Airships - Part 1
Background: On June 20, 2017 Hybrid Air Freighters (HAF) signed a Letter of Intent to purchase up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships,...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Race for the New Kingdom in the Sky - Part 3
Next Golden Era of Airship Aviation: There are many disaster relief logistics networks that would be excited to leverage the unique...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Race for the New Kingdom in the Sky - Part 2
Roadmaps and Signposts: A roadmap for technological development describes the goals for a future environment and provides examples of how...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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Race for the New Kingdom in the Sky - Part 1
A New Generation of Airships: By 1937, the German Airship Hindenburg represented the pinnacle achievement of a lighter-than-air aerospace...
Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jun 6, 2021
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