Nuclear-powered flying hotel

The ambitious Sky Cruise - which is designed to never land by using 20 engines running on nuclear fusion - has featured in a new video.

While someone else commented “I’m sure I would be able to afford a ticket for the lowest deck with no leg space and no access to the lounge”. I believe it will be fully autonomous." However not everyone agrees, with some commenters describing the Sky Cruise concept as the “new Titanic” - pointing out that having lifts on the outside of the aircraft would be far from aerodynamic and that if an aircraft powered by a nuclear reactor crashed, it could destroy a city.

The 'Sky Cruise hotel' is built to have 20 nuclear-powered engines and would have the capacity to carry 5,000 passengers.

In the video rendering of the plane, posted by Al-Ghaili on YouTube titled ‘Sky Cruise: A Futuristic Hotel Above the Clouds’, the monster ship is described as ‘the perfect wedding venue’. The hotel in the sky would still have staff manning a shopping mall onboard, pools, gyms and cinemas. The ‘Sky Cruise hotel’ is built to have 20 nuclear-powered engines and would have the capacity to carry 5,000 passengers.

Depicting a hulking jet that looks somewhere between a mega-cruise-ship and a space station floating above the clouds, the CGI video of the “Sky Cruise” vessel ...

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Yemeni engineer Hashem Al-Ghaili has unveiled his vision for the future of travel, and it wouldn't look out of place in a film about the apocalypse.

References to the Titanic were also commonplace in the comments section. Suspended high above the clouds, the sky hotel would feature a large “panoramic hall”, offering 360-degree views of the skies. Like an enormous, winged, futuristic-looking cruise liner, it would be fuelled by 20 electric engines, with a small nuclear reactor using “highly controlled fusion reaction to provide the sky hotel with unlimited energy”.

Flying Hotel that never lands: The Sky cruise is a futurist sky hotel that aims to give the ultimate travel experience to its guests. The nuclear-powered ...

It has been designed by a Yemeni producer Hashem Al-Ghaili. The launch date of the flying hotel is yet to be announced. One other user called the Sky Cruise a hide-away for the rich during an apocalypse. The jumbo plane will feature a vault that will offer the guests a 360 degree view of the sky. It is the first-ever such concept to be implemented in the world. The nuclear-powered hotel will remain suspended above the clouds. The demo of the flying hotel went viral, leaving the netizens astounded.

A concept video of Sky Cruise, a giant flying machine that can carry 5,000 passengers and has all the luxuries of the world, has gone viral on the internet.

Others were more sarcastic than critical, stating that they could see the Sky Cruise fly if "physics and aerodynamics did not exist". Another user said the concept was like putting together a ''Titanic with Hindenburg and then putting a nuclear reactor in it". Both the positive and the negative. I have always been a fan of Studio Ghibli. Castle in the Sky is one of my favorite movies where we see massive flying ships with people living inside." Al-Ghaili takes no credit for the airship's design and said that it was done by Tony Holmsten several years ago, Cruisehive reported. The maker of the video claims that such an aircraft built in the future would have no carbon footprint, The Independent reported. The concept of a floating world in itself is not new and has been described even in Jonathan Swift's works from the 18th century, much before the Wright Brothers made their first flight.

A futuristic giant nuclear-powered flying hotel, Sky Cruise, showcases basic amenities like a gym and swimming pool with the ability to carry around 5000 ...

A futuristic giant nuclear-powered flying hotel, Sky Cruise, showcases basic amenities like a gym and swimming pool with the ability to carry around 5,000 passengers. For all occasions, the aircraft has everything ready and sorted. The cruise will be powered by 20 nuclear fusion engines.