Aerosail
Stephane
Rousson’s new blimp called “Aerosail”, uses the
wind to be propelled. It is a genuine sailing
ship of the air, a 100% green flight who
respects the sea and gives to the pilot a
fantastic feeling, a new dimension of air
piloting: the “aero-maritime flight”, perfect
combination between the air piloting of a flying
machine and the navigation of a sailing ship.
The combined
experience of Stephane as a pilot and a navigator
enables him to have the machine fly. He uses the
technology of the “Chien de Mer” conceived by Didier
Costes, a polytechnicien engineer. The “Chien de
Mer” is a curved carbon foil which will be under the
water’s surface. It is linked to the balloon’s car
by a long cable whose length can be adjusted from 65
ft 6 inches to 164 ft (20m to 50 m) and which acts
as a centreboard. Stephane tested it and adjusted it.
He also adjusted the piloting from the blimp
sketch of the "Chien de Mer"
9 june 2007
Flight at Saint-Mandrier