Whale-Shaped Airship First Flying Hotel
I can barely afford a Howard Johnson, but I’d gladly sleep in my car to save up for a ride on this sweet airship hotel.
Dubbed the Manned Cloud, the whale of a airship is still on the drawing board, but claims to be the first flying hotel.
Manned Cloud is a whale-shaped airship hotel with a capacity of 40 passengers and staffed with 15 persons, that on a 3-day cruise in 170 km/h permits man to explore the world without a trace: to re-experience traveling, timelessness and enhance the consciousness of the beauty of the world.
The Manned Cloud was developed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaud and the French national aerospace researcher ONERA.
The ship looks like Star Trek crashed into a fish, and instead of cleaning up the mess, they painted it white. I’m not sure that the whale design helps the ship fly any better, but it would be a stunning site to see this thing floating through the air.
[Via Design You Trust]
