Supply Chains

Airships, solar planes and Soviet-era sea skimmers … here's how we fix air travel

The Soviets' ekranoplan is a potential low-carbon air travel option.

Designers looking for low-carbon alternatives to conventional aircraft are resurrecting ideas including the ekranoplan. Image: Sergey Rodovnichenko/Wikipedia

Jens Martin Skibsted
Partner, Manyone A/S
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A modern airship, the Zeppelin NT D-LZZF, in 2010.
A modern airship, the Zeppelin NT D-LZZF, in 2010. Image: AngMoKio/Wikipedia
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Emissions per passenger km on various modes of transport Image: BBC
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