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{
    "time": "2012-05-08 09:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Dr. Barry Prentice",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2868608\" data-originallang=\"en\"> First of all, of course you cannot have an airship that's bigger than the hangar you have to put it in. You have to decide how big an airship you're going to have and then how big a hangar you're going to have. You have to have a hangar.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868609\" data-originallang=\"en\">The price will depend on the airship size, obviously. We have some ideas for how that might be reduced. But as a rule of thumb for airships, they get better as they get bigger. The price is about $1 million per tonne of lift. It's more when they're smaller. As you get bigger, that starts to diminish. But that gives you a rough idea.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868610\" data-originallang=\"en\"> A 20-tonne-lift airship might cost around $20 million. By comparison, the Hercules, which has similar lift\u2014the military, the Canadian government, purchased some recently\u2014I believe are about $89 million apiece. It's much more expensive to buy airplanes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868611\" data-originallang=\"en\">Part of the reason is that an airship isn't pressurized. It's not going 500 miles an hour. It doesn't have jet engines. Most what you have is fabric and the envelope. So it's a less expensive vehicle to begin with, just to build it. And of course it has a similar sort of life, or at least it should have.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868612\" data-originallang=\"en\">In terms of the cost, part of it is this issue of regulations. The first thing you'd be asking me is when we get started. I'd say that it depends. How are we going to get the pilots trained and set up, and when will we get going? That's an uncertainty. We don't know the answer.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2868608\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tout d'abord, vous ne pouvez bien s\u00fbr pas avoir de dirigeable plus grand que le hangar dont vous disposez pour l'abriter. Vous devez d\u00e9cider quelle taille de dirigeable vous voulez pour savoir quelle taille de hangar il vous faut. Il vous faut imp\u00e9rativement un hangar.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868609\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le prix d\u00e9pendra \u00e9videmment de la taille du dirigeable. Nous avons quelques id\u00e9es sur la fa\u00e7on dont on pourrait le r\u00e9duire. Mais en r\u00e8gle g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, plus les dirigeables sont grands, et meilleurs ils sont. Le prix est d'environ 1 million de dollars par tonne de capacit\u00e9 d'emport. C'est plus s'ils sont plus petits. Le chiffre commence \u00e0 diminuer plus l'appareil est grand. Mais cela vous donne une id\u00e9e approximative.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868610\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un dirigeable d'une capacit\u00e9 de 20 tonnes peut co\u00fbter aux environs de 20 millions de dollars. Par comparaison, l'avion Hercules, qui a une capacit\u00e9 d'emport similaire \u2014 les forces arm\u00e9es et le gouvernement canadien en ont achet\u00e9 quelques-uns r\u00e9cemment \u2014 co\u00fbte, je crois, environ 89 millions de dollars pi\u00e8ce. Les avions co\u00fbtent beaucoup plus cher \u00e0 l'achat.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868611\" data-originallang=\"en\">La raison tient en partie au fait qu'un dirigeable n'est pas pressuris\u00e9. Il ne vole pas \u00e0 500 milles \u00e0 l'heure. Il n'a pas de moteur \u00e0 r\u00e9action. Il est constitu\u00e9 presque enti\u00e8rement de toile et d'une enveloppe. C'est donc un v\u00e9hicule moins co\u00fbteux \u00e0 construire au d\u00e9part. Et bien s\u00fbr, il a une dur\u00e9e de vie similaire, ou du moins le devrait.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2868612\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ce qui est du co\u00fbt, il d\u00e9pend en partie de la r\u00e9glementation. La premi\u00e8re chose que vous me demanderiez, c'est quand il va entrer en service. Je dirais que cela d\u00e9pend. Comment allons-nous former les pilotes et quand l'exploitation va-t-elle commencer? C'est une incertitude. Je ne connais pas la r\u00e9ponse.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/transport/41-1/35/dr-barry-prentice-28/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7565326",
    "document_url": "/committees/transport/41-1/35/",
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}