HOSPITAL AIRSHIPS
The idea is simple, use airships to carry humanitarian relief to disaster victims around the world. Because airships are so large, they can be built as "flying hospitals"...with emergency surgery rooms and medical equipment. The airships can carry large amounts of supplies....food, water purification systems, medical supplies.....and doctors, nurses, and emergency search and rescue personnel on board.

Instead of flying to a major airport at a large city where supplies would have to be loaded onto trucks or helicopters to carry disaster relief, airship can fly directly to any location on earth and deliver humanitarian aid quickly to the exact place it is needed. Airships can deliver help to the most remote locations, even if roads are destroyed as in an earthquake, or flooding.

By carrying materials and medical or rescue personnel directly to the area where it is needed, airships can avoid many of the political or potentialy hazardous barriers that often delay help from being delivered rapidly to disaster victims.

Because airships can fly and operate on solar power, they are less expensive to operate than other means used to deliver humanitarian aid; this makes airships a new and better way to reach disaster areas.

Turtle Airships is eager to develop airships for humanitarian work; we desire to make airships available to the United Nations; International Red Cross; Red Crescent; and other non-profit humanitarian organizations.

Contact: turtleairships@hotmail.com