Comment: Airplane + Zeppelin = Hybrid Airship (Score 1) 257
We couldnt use this?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_airship
Is a merge between a airplane and a zeppelin.
If it stop working, just fall (not too fast) to the ground , but dont catastrophically crash.
It dont go fast and can get moderately big payloads.
And if it have some sort of vectorial thrust, probably it can do vertical lift-of