AIRSHIP

PURPOSE:To facilitate the control of direction and also display a high movement performance by equipping a payload at the bow of a ship body, providing a propulsion device and a steering device at the stern, and at the same time making the center of gravity and the center of buoyancy of the whole positioned near the axis of the ship body. CONSTITUTION:A payload 2 is provided at the bow portion of an airship body 1, and propulsion and steering devices 12, 18 are provided at the stern portion, and the centers of gravity (CG) and buoyancy (CB) of the whole are positioned near the axis of the ship body. A transparent structure is adopted at the bow portion where the payload 2 of people and things is carried, in order to maintain the field of vision, and weighting is dispersed to the ship body 1 by means spurs 4 equivalent to ribs. The propulsion device at the inside of a tail cone 3 is made up of an air-cooled gasoline engine 14, a reduction gear 15, and a reversal mechanism 16 that reverses two axial fans 17 of forward and reverse pitches, at a shaft 13 projecting backward from the ship body 1. The steering device 18 consists of a tail wing 10 of three inverted V shaped blades and a rubber 19, and the rubber 19 is fitted to the rear of the axial fans 17 and makes the whole movable up and down and right and left by combining plural horizontal and vertical flaps into a lattice shape.