Aeroscraft Flying Cruise Ship
The aircraft will enter a flying tests phase over the next 60 days.
Aeroscraft flying cruise ship. The first prototype of this two-football-fields-long concept airship is planned for completion by 2010. The Aeroscraft also has potential as a cargo ship. After they are done with the testing they will build the full scale version.
The aircraft will enter a flying tests phase over the next 60 days. On board feautures will include luxury staterooms restaurants even a casino. Aeroscraft manufacturers lighter than air products such as blimps airships aerostats and is a leading innovator of Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicles.
San Francisco Chronicle. The Toronto Star January 24 2013. Its a blimp-like airship called the Aeroscraft and its so big it fills half a hanger by itself.
The vast skin could also have solar cells for power. With amenities like piano lounges dining rooms and private staterooms airships were a luxurious and relaxed way to travel the world. 80 years ago airship.
The company envisions a cargo-carrying version that could deliver a stores worth of merchandise from a centralized distribution center straight to a Wal-Mart parking lot or because the helium-filled craft will float a. The planned 600-foot-long Moby Air flying cruise ship would carry a payload of 400 tons and be powered by electric motors. A scaled-down prototype was made in 2008.
It uses technology from the cancelled Darpa Walrus. But its tiny compared with the transport vehicle that Pasternak envisions. The competed Aeroscraft Aeroscraft airship proof-of-design sub-scale prototype is 79 meters 206 ft long.
