An airship dynamic adaptive harness is provided to stabilize airships and particularly a tethered aerostat in high winds and atmospheric changes. A novel adaptive device accommodates the supply of a lift gas and simultaneously controls opposing cables in a tethered harness with a cascade control system that provides an immediate and particularly the dynamic control of roll, yaw and particularly the pitch of the aerostat in response to real time environmental flight conditions and impart stability to the airship in high winds using a stability zone geometric suspension control system and enhance the duration of in flight missions. A lifting gas replenishment system and particularly a ground based lifting gas replenishment system adds long duration deployment to the dynamic adaptability to high wind conditions for long term deployment.

An aerial vehicle control system includes an aerial vehicle and a computing device. The aerial vehicle includes an altitude controller and a lateral propulsion controller The computing device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to obtain location data corresponding to a location of the aerial vehicle; obtain wind data; determine an altitude command, a latitude command, and a longitude command based on at least one of the location data or the wind data; cause the altitude controller to implement at least one of the altitude command, the latitude command, or the longitude command; and cause the lateral propulsion controller to implement at least one of the altitude command, the latitude command, or the longitude command.

An airship hull is disclosed. The airship hull comprises a gas-tight shape fabricated from a membrane. The airship hull comprises one or more fibers applied to an outer surface of the gas-tight shape in a continuous manner such that a particular one of the one or more fibers wraps around a circumference of the gas-tight shape multiple times, wherein the applied one or more fibers are affixed to the outer surface of the gas-tight shape.

An airship hull is disclosed. The airship hull comprises a gas-tight shape fabricated from a membrane. The airship hull comprises one or more fibers applied to an outer surface of the gas-tight shape in a continuous manner such that a particular one of the one or more fibers wraps around a circumference of the gas-tight shape multiple times, wherein the applied one or more fibers are affixed to the outer surface of the gas-tight shape.

A lighter-than-air toy drone assembly that stays aloft using a balloon that is filled with a lighter-than-air gas. The balloon is inflated and deflated with the gas through a remote control vent valve. A ballast chamber can be provided that is filled with and drained of ballast through a purge valve. Controlled flight is achieved by selectively controlling motorized propellers, the vent valve and the optional purge valve. The motorized propeller provides horizontal movement. The purge valve and the vent valve change the buoyancy of the drone assembly and therefore control vertical movement.

A lighter-than-air toy drone assembly that stays aloft using a balloon that is filled with a lighter-than-air gas. The balloon is inflated and deflated with the gas through a remote control vent valve. A ballast chamber can be provided that is filled with and drained of ballast through a purge valve. Controlled flight is achieved by selectively controlling motorized propellers, the vent valve and the optional purge valve. The motorized propeller provides horizontal movement. The purge valve and the vent valve change the buoyancy of the drone assembly and therefore control vertical movement.

The present invention discloses bionic stratospheric airships, relate to the technical field of aircrafts. the hull shape of the bionic stratospheric airship is obtained by lofting the shape of physalia physalis; one or more buoyancy gasbags, one or more ballonets, and a heat regulating gasbag are provided inside the hull; the buoyancy gasbags are filled with lighter-than-air gas and are provided at an upper layer inside the hull; the ballonets are filled with air and are provided at a lower layer inside the hull; the heat regulating gasbag is provided at a middle layer inside the hull and is filled with a working medium reversibly regulated between a gas state and a liquid state; and a thermodynamic cycle device for heating or pressurizing the working medium is provided inside the heat regulating gasbag.

A reusable floating device suitable for launching a space rocket has a support structure which includes a toroidal balloon housing and a rigid platform attached thereto; an elongated rigid structure surrounded by said support structure, releasably connected thereto, and adapted for attachment to a space rocket; at least one buoyant gas balloon within said balloon housing; and a compressor module and at least one rigid-walled tank carried by said platform. The compressor module is in confined flow communication with the at least one buoyant gas balloon and the at least one rigid-walled tank.

A hybrid airship has both aerostatic and aerodynamic lift comprising: an engine, a flexible external envelope (2) and at least one primary enclosure Ep filled with lifting gas (G). The primary enclosure Ep having an elastic wall P.sub.1 separating this enclosure from compartment C.sub.1, the latter having an elastic wall P.sub.i separating compartment C.sub.1 from compartment C.sub.i, the latter having an elastic wall P.sub.i+1 separating the compartment C.sub.i from compartment C.sub.i+1, and so on up until elastic wall P.sub.J+1 separating compartment C.sub.J from compartment C.sub.J+1 where J corresponds to a whole number greater than or equal to 1, each compartment C.sub.i being equally delimited by the flexible exterior envelope. The hybrid airship includes a) a valve V.sub.i between each compartment C.sub.i and its adjacent compartment C.sub.i+1, and b) a controller (22) for the valve V.sub.i.

A hybrid airship has both aerostatic and aerodynamic lift comprising: an engine, a flexible external envelope (2) and at least one primary enclosure Ep filled with lifting gas (G). The primary enclosure Ep having an elastic wall P.sub.1 separating this enclosure from compartment C.sub.1, the latter having an elastic wall P.sub.i separating compartment C.sub.1 from compartment C.sub.i, the latter having an elastic wall P.sub.i+1 separating the compartment C.sub.i from compartment C.sub.i+1, and so on up until elastic wall P.sub.J+1 separating compartment C.sub.J from compartment C.sub.J+1 where J corresponds to a whole number greater than or equal to 1, each compartment C.sub.i being equally delimited by the flexible exterior envelope. The hybrid airship includes a) a valve V.sub.i between each compartment C.sub.i and its adjacent compartment C.sub.i+1, and b) a controller (22) for the valve V.sub.i.