Title:
MANNED AIRSHIP
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003212190
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To obtain a manned airship which drastically improve motion performance for convenient use as an airborne transport means for personal use and can fly freely and readily in the air in the sense of recreation.
In the neighborhood of a gravity center inside an airship body 1 formed by an air sac in which a lifting gas is sealed and being floated by the lifting gas, a pilot's seat 2 is provided which can contain a pilot 3, and the whole or a part of a film material constituting the air sac is formed by a transparent material through which the pilot at the pilot's seat can see outside the airship.
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Inventors:
Onda, Masahiko
Application Number:
JP2002000013666
Publication Date:
July 30, 2003
Filing Date:
January 23, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL & TECHNOLOGY
International Classes:
B64B1/58; B64B1/22; B64B1/30; B64C39/00; B64B1/00; B64C39/00; (IPC1-7): B64B1/58; B64B1/22; B64B1/30