https://archive.ph/fekOe link to The Sun article
A GIANT nuclear-powered 'flying hotel', complete with a gym and swimming pool could carry 5,000 passenger in unparalleled luxury.
A new CGI video details how the AI-piloted Sky Cruise plans to remain airborne for months at a time, while also docking to take on new passengers, or to drop off anyone board.
The futuristic hybrid between a plane and hotel - which has 20 engines powered by nuclear fusion - is designed never to land.
Hashem Alghaili, who created the incredibly detailed mockup of the monster aircraft, says the nuclear-powered sky cruise “could be the future of transport”.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow concept art
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the future of transport?
Designed to run 24/7, Alghaili even adds that running repairs would be carried out in-flight - a first in aviation.
And, when asked how many people it would take to fly this gigantic plane, he said: “All this technology and you still want pilots?
:youre-laughing: pilots?? pffft ha, pilots pft shh haha
"I believe it will be fully autonomous”.
Despite plans for a man-less ride,
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the Sky Cruise will still require plenty of staff on board to be at every passengers beck and call.
The greatly detailed video also promises restaurants, a gigantic shopping mall, a gym, theatre and even a swimming pool - all in the sky.
:galaxy-brain: there will still be servants, of course
This seems like a good premise for a post-apocalyptic fiction setting. The ground has become uninhabitable due to climate change/ nuclear war/ whatever, and now the human race exists only on giant aerocraft of some kind
Make it zeppelins so that it isn't incredibly stupid.
That's what I was thinking. Zeppelins are cooler than planes as well
But now that I'm picturing it, the protagonists HAVE to fly Crimson Skies-esque biplanes and stuff.
Sounds like The Jetsons.
skypiercer