AIRSHIP envisions an innovative use of a known transportation mean: flying ships.
Such vehicles (also known as ekranoplans or wing-in-ground -WIG vehicles) inherit all the advantages of conventional airborne transportation, while being more energy efficient and environmentally friendly, both from the carbon footprint and the acoustic noise pollution point of view.
AIRSHIP aims to lay the foundations of a new class of fully electrical unmanned aircraft system, the UWV (Unmanned WIG Vehicle) that brings together speed, flexibility and energy efficiency.
The main advantages of AIRSHIP are speed, the use of renewable energy, the higher payload and efficiency. These vehicles present a distinct advantage in waterways and archipelagos, of which Europe has many. To know more about the advantages and uses of ekranoplanes, click here.
AIRSHIP will study and develop new technologies in zero-emission power, on-board AI and in automatic flight control that overcome the challenging technological problems that flying in ground effect poses, allowing such vehicles to become autonomous
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