Airships over the Amazon

摘要

Engineer Marcelo Felippes is the institutional director of Airship do Brasil, based in S3o Carlos, near Sao Paulo, Brazil, which develops lighter-than-airtechnology. He is an authority on jungle logistics What gave you the idea for using airships to transport cargo in the Amazon? I was a lieutenant in the Brazilian army in the 1980s and I saw the difficulties of moving equipment around in the Amazon, especially for platoons working in densely forested border regions. The army has a long tradition of using balloons and airships for border surveillance.