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Although earlier examples of the Zeppelin didn’t fare all that well, it hasn’t put a couple of designers off developing a modern one. And you can see the appeal – cruising the skies like a luxury liner might cruise the oceans.  

And this is exactly what architect and visual effects artist, Tino Schaedler and architectural theorist and practitioner, Michael Brown from NAU, a multi-disciplinary web of architects and designers, have in mind: cruise ship-like medium-haul transits between transatlantic, transpacific, trans-American or Europe-Middle East routes. Imagine approaching a destination at sunset – you might sit down to a gourmet dinner overlooking glaciers, tropical jungles or Mayan ruins.

Don’t let the Zeppelin’s fiery past put you off though. With its carbon fibre skin, sectional helium chamber design and photovoltaic cells, the Stratocruiser’s construction brings new levels of safety, speed and ecology to travel. Its “doughnut hole” atrium reinvents the Zeppelin concept with a sky lounge on top, the earthward viewing restaurant on the underside and a recreational climbing wall in between.

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