I have a concept for a "fuelless flight" spinning airship .  

I have patterened this latest design after a pinecone.  (In fact, I superimpsed my latest drawing on top of a pinecone photo!)  As you can see, I've been thinking about this spinning balloon concept for a few years now.  It is only recently that it has dawned on me to use the pinecone as the template to follow for the spiral pitch of the balloon's propulsion vanes.

 This system becomes "Fuelless" by taking advantage of the Bernoulli principle, and the laws governing buoyancy.  

With a water-cooler sized LN2 maker, these two principles can now go hand-in-hand, which could lead to an entire fleet of these spinning airships, with detachable gliders.  The predictable air current patterns could be followed across the nation, to create a network of fuelless flight, spinning airship "skycrane" lift stations!  

Payment is given in liquid air.  The spinning balloon's only purpose could be to take these gliders up to a 5 mile altitude, and then release them! 

The hydrogen lifting gas is then re-compressed, and the now heavier-than-air airship descends back to the ground, to once again to carry another glider back up to 5 miles altitude. 

The spinning-effect of the airship is also a kinetic energy electricity storage system, for an on-board battery that runs the compressor and gondola, etc. 

1) It spins like a football,  as it 'corkscrews' through the air, utilizing a type of compressed air propulsion. 

2) It has an important "byproduct" of air motor cold exhaust, that creates the cold air slipstream which exits out over the tapering balloon shape.  This allows it to travel much faster, and be more stable in high winds. 

 

3) The balloon is filled with hydrogen instead of helium.  This autonomous floating method decentralizes the govt.-controlled helium lifting gas necessity.   An h2n2 dual balloon envelope could be utilized when transporting people.  The inner balloon contains the hydrogen, and the outer balloon contains the inert, non-flammable 'blanket gas' of either nitrogen or helium.  

 

4) It runs on liquid air (-321F) 

 

5) -which is made by the descending gliders, which can computer-glide on airstream currents for 100's of miles.  It is their "payment" for getting transported back up to a 5 mile altitude.  

 

6) With a unique stationary spiral-bladed rudder, that can be warped into any direction to steer the airship

 

7) The graphite bow, which the gondola rolls forward and aft upon, is analagous to a "reverse suspension bridge".   It is able to hold the central cable taut, and also allow the moveable gondola to be a ballast for pointing the airship skyward, or towards the ground.

I have been inspired by Viktor Schauberger's invention of a slipstream biological-submarine, and then translated it over into this spinning airship concept.  It also mimics, to some degree, how bacteria swim.

 

 

 I have only recently found this picture!  An old 1934 Popular Mechanics spinning airship design.   It appears that the proportional size of the balloon to gondola is too small.  And also, notice how the 'cross-hairs' tail fin rudder would only interfere with the exiting vortexian flow of the denser, colder air.

Into the Great Wide Open...'

My friend, George, enjoys staying self-sufficient while he drives his mobile once again.

 So, he built a "Whale's Tail" generator at his ranch...

 ...to store up much-needed Hydrogen!

Well, his rolling rig just so happens to sit below a spinning airship.

And, he's just about ready to lift another glider up on a one-way 5 mile trip!

Occupants with glider then get released to soar hundreds of miles or so. 

All the while, making liquid air, because that's what makes George's ballooncraft go!"   

 

The moveable gondola that also is able to grasp and hold.  Whether it is the LN2-producing glider, or being a 'skycrane', or grasping an upwind anchoring location. ^

Earlier airship design.  The hanger that it lands inside of could be useful for quick deployment, and stowing it away upon the ceiling!

Riding upon a captured whirl!  ^

^ A FUELLESS FLIGHT concept via the laws of BUOYANCY.