Welcome to A Flawless Future: “The Flying Mega-Yacht”

The Ital­ian Laz­zari­ni Design Stu­dio based in Rome offers a won­der­ful and high­ly imag­i­na­tive futur­is­tic world of trans­port con­cepts under the strapline, “Think about the future, nev­er for­get the past.”

The company’s founder is 40 year-old, Pier­pao­lo Laz­zari­ni, an Ital­ian design­er who describes him­self as some­one with “artis­tic visu­al­i­sa­tion and pro­to­typ­ing skills” who spent “years work­ing in the auto­mo­tive field” and who believes “in a dif­fer­ent design approach.”

Pier­pao­lo Laz­zari­ni

One of his bet­ter known has been dubbed “The fly­ing mega-yacht”, a cata­ma­ran struc­ture com­posed of two large par­al­lel blimps linked togeth­er by car­bon fibre bridges that hold the whole con­struct togeth­er. This amphibi­ous air yacht is designed to move almost seam­less­ly through the air and water, where pas­sen­gers and car­go trav­el in a rigid, aero­dy­nam­ic cab­in between the two blimp struc­tures.

This lev­i­tat­ing delight, pow­ered by hydro­gen and solar pow­er from its rooftop pan­els, is able to reach speeds of up 70 knots (81 mph) dur­ing flight and 5 knots (6 mph) when sail­ing. The choice of hydro­gen is an inter­est­ing deci­sion, as oth­er recent air­ship projects have opt­ed to use heli­um instead.

A spokesper­son at the Ital­ian design stu­dio said the com­pa­ny has opt­ed for hydro­gen due to its larg­er lift­ing pow­er, which makes it pos­si­ble to lim­it the vol­ume of the blimps. While hydro­gen is flam­ma­ble, cur­rent tech­nolo­gies and mate­ri­als make it pos­si­ble to use the gas safe­ly and secure­ly.

While the orig­i­nal con­cept mea­sured a whop­ping 265 metres (869 feet) long and was capa­ble of car­ry­ing 200 pas­sen­gers, this lat­est ver­sion is much more com­pact at 100 metres (328 feet) long.

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https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com/the-air-yacht-v2

The fly­ing Yacht has a dura­tion trav­el time of 48 hours and is being designed to allow for board­ing and de-board­ing while on the move. eVTOLs, for exam­ple, would be able to land on a heli­pad locat­ed on top of the cab­in to drop off or pick up pas­sen­gers.

Not sur­pris­ing­ly, this fly­ing mega-yacht is being tar­get­ed at wealthy indi­vid­u­als. The deluxe cab­in design fea­tures a shipowner’s suite that occu­pies the cen­tral space and pro­vides 360-degree views. Addi­tion­al­ly, there are five small­er suites, plus a large area for relax­ing and din­ing.

Although Laz­zari­ni Design Stu­dio has yet to secure investors for this Air Yacht, the stu­dio is mov­ing for­ward with tri­al­ing a 30-metre (98-foot) scale mod­el in Ger­many lat­er this year.

Cab­in lounge and Din­ing Area

Lazzarini’s extra­or­di­nary imag­i­na­tion is best dis­played via this link.

https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com/aerospace

A smor­gas­bord of con­cepts that will tit­il­late the imag­i­na­tion of even the most hard­ened futur­ist. From the Lin­ux and Stratofera eVTOLs, the ulti­mate fly­ing car, the Hov­er Coupe, to the FD-One rac­ing speed­ster, one can only look on in won­der. Yet, there is one major snag. Will any of these designs ever reach the mar­ket-place giv­en the amount of mon­ey required to devel­op them? Are they mere­ly sci­ence fic­tion fan­tasies for the Isaac Asi­mov cognoscen­ti?

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https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com/fd-one

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https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com/

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(images: laz­zari­ni design stu­dio)