Patent ID: 6766982
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: B64B,B64F

Abstract:
An airship comprising a fuselage, a supporting structure positioned internal to the fuselage, an air passageway extending through the fuselage in an axial direction, said air passageway having air inlet openings at the forward end of the airship with the passageway tapering inwardly to provide a venturi in a mid region of the airship and the passageway downstream of the venturi continuing to the rear end of the airship where it flow connects to a variable pitch rearwardly projecting nozzle, and an air turbine mounted in the narrowest region of the venturi and adapted to generate electricity, a plurality of adjustable air wings projecting outwardly from the surface of the fuselage said air wings being arranged in circumferential rows and cargo areas at the bottom of the fuselage.