Aeroscraft Flying Cruise Ship

HALO luxury airship Halo is a giant luxury residential airship concept designed in 2015 by Andrew Winch Designs London UK based on an Aeroscraft variable buoyancy airship likely the very large ML868.

Aeroscraft flying cruise ship. It will be able to haul massive amounts of cargo and transport hundreds of passengers in luxury with quiet electric engines. Unlike its dirigible ancestor s the Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. A privately-funded California firm is developing a new vehicle for air travel called the Aeroscraft.

The Flying Cruise Ship. The passenger version is the Aeros-ML which would have a smaller configuration with room for about 120 passengers or 20 tons of cargo. Aeroscraft Hovers in New Flight Test.

The range is projected to be 10000 miles so passengers could cross the. The Aeroscraft model ML866 is a planned 20-ton hybrid airship to be built by the Worldwide Aeros Corporation. The Aeroscraft does not fly high enough to need pressurization.

It uses technology from the cancelled Darpa Walrus. In about 18 hours. The rigid and surprisingly aerodynamic body - driven by huge rearward propellers - generates enough additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while cruising.

The Aeroscraft in Pasternaks hangar is the biggest rigid airship built in the United States since the 1940s. The aircraft will enter a flying tests phase over the next 60 days. It requires a pilot but no ground crew and it can lift off almost like a helium filled balloon.

Heavy load capacity of up to 500 tons. With a 12000 mile range. The vast skin could also have solar cells for power.