Transport committee  Quite sincerely, I think every aircraft that flies today has a limitation. I spent ten years flying on the Hercules with Pacific Western, and we flew all over the world. Some days you could fly and some days you couldn't. We've been in the Arctic when it's 60 below and the wind i

Transport committee  Again, Barry, maybe you could default a bit more to that on the technical side.

Transport committee  That would be better. But to answer that question, I'm not inside on that information, but I know they've been working together closely.

Transport committee  In my opinion, it is.

Transport committee  I think my comment was that the faster it goes, the more money it costs. It's between a truck and an airplane. So it moves a little bit faster—80 to 100 miles per hour. It will fit somewhere in that program. So if water transportation is a dollar, I can hypothetically say that i

Transport committee  Quite honestly, and again from my own perspective.... The Hybrid Air Vehicles in the United Kingdom is a group I've been associated with for about seven years, watching what they've been doing and helping them to get advice about what you do at 40-below and 50-below in the Arctic

Transport committee  Again, I'm no expert on that. I believe they have an arrangement in place.

Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  I believe that's an absolute inevitability. The reason I say this is that when the organizations and locations are supplied in the north now in the summertime by the sealift or in the wintertime by the ice road, as I mentioned earlier, they buy everything once a year and they hav

Transport committee  Yes. I think all I was going to get to, Mr. Watson, was that if you simplistically look at them at 100 miles an hour—Barry says 80, but let's say you take 100 miles an hour—they don't fly over 10,000 feet because they're unpressurized, and from some of the studies we looked at,

Transport committee  Divide 3,000 miles by 100 miles an hour.

Transport committee  They have looked at double-crewing the crews on board and various things. There are some practical applications, as with anything that flies. Conceptually, they are designed to be able to do short-lift vertical takeoff, and some of them are designed to do long-haul. It just dep

Transport committee  I think that just depends. My comment--and again, I know that Barry has quite positive views on where they could be located and how that could be done--would be that it's wherever they need to be. If you look today.... No, I don't say that in a negative sense.

Transport committee  I understand that, but if you look today at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, there are more aircraft in Yellowknife than anyplace in Canada, per capita, for hauling cargo. There are three huge diamond mines 300 kilometres northeast of there. You have airplanes that are 7

Transport committee  Between airplanes and trucks.