Aeroscraft Flying Cruise Ship

Unlike its dirigible ancestors the Aeroscraft is not lighter than air.

Aeroscraft flying cruise ship. Heavy load capacity of up to 500 tons. San Francisco Chronicle. It requires a pilot but no ground crew and it can lift off almost like a helium filled balloon.

Aeroscraft ML866 The Aeroscraft ML866 is a heavier than air hybrid airship that is currently being worked on by the Worldwide Aeros Corporation. After they are done with the testing they will build the full scale version. It will be able to haul massive amounts of cargo and transport hundreds of passengers in luxury with quiet electric engines.

A 2006 article in POPSCI reported Worldwide Aeros Corporation was developing a prototype to be completed by 2010. Its a blimp-like airship called the Aeroscraft and its so big it fills half a hanger by itself. 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.

80 years ago airship. With a range of several thousand miles and an estimated top speed of 174 mph the Aeroscraft Flying Luxury Hotel could traverse the continental US. The planned 600-foot-long Moby Air flying cruise ship would carry a payload of 400 tons and be powered by electric motors.

The Aeroscraft does not fly high enough to need pressurization. A privately-funded California firm is developing a new vehicle for air travel called the Aeroscraft. 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. The Aeroscraft a new type of airship said to be capable of vertical takeoff and landing and speeds of over 130 mph has passed an important round of tests according to a Jan. But its tiny compared with the transport vehicle that Pasternak envisions.