Transport committee  A lot of elements.... There's been a lot interaction in trying to assess the market conditions for this. The funding has gone into the hiring of engineers to finalize the design elements.

Transport committee  We've probably invested close to $5 million thus far.

Transport committee  That's been approaching two years now.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  There will be significant opportunities for private sector investment. We're going to have to continually invest in the development and creation of an air-operating company. Hybrid Air Vehicles as the designer is going to continue to invest. They've just gone through a round of r

Transport committee  I'll respond to that. I think that's a healthy skepticism, which is why we're not advocating a wholesale investment in infrastructure for a network of airships prior to providing additional proof. We want to see that, because although the technology holds much promise, and I'm s

Transport committee  We do think that the program of the U.S. Army is going a long way to proving the technology and certain components of it, but we still want to see the proof and a demonstrator.

Transport committee  We could provide that—not today, obviously.

Transport committee  I think we could easily provide that analysis, including our market analysis, if that is what the committee wishes to see. We can provide that.

Transport committee  It would be a step in the right direction. We are still faced with the challenge of funding this demonstrator.

Transport committee  That would definitely be helpful. I agree with your point about the government generating a war effort. The comment was meant to be illustrative of the outcomes. I would say that if there were a list of government services that could be met via a commercial application of airship

Transport committee  There are some facilities in the States. We could do the assembly, at least the layout and the final assembly of the demonstrator.

Transport committee  No, we haven't negotiated access to those facilities. Ultimately, that would be Hybrid Air Vehicles' problem to solve.

Transport committee  Also, there are two very large facilities in Cardington. I know that Hybrid Air Vehicles is talking to the U.K. government about getting access to one of those, which would be more than big enough to do this.

Transport committee  It's very limited and very dated, but for the purposes of building a demonstrator, you could use that.