Hybrid Airships Could Change the Economics of Asia and Africa

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We are very close to waking up one day and finding ourselves in Fringe’s Alternative Universe. You can always tell by the airships’ sedate glide above the skyscrapers. Appropriately, it is on the fringe of engineering that the hybrid airship has quietly come about.

The first powered flight was an airship 51 years before the Wright brothers. A Frenchman by the…