Cumulus
60m hybrid heavy-lift airship — 10t outsized, austere-field, no runway.
Cumulus is the airframe that proves the buoyant-lift thesis: a 60-metre hybrid envelope that carries ten tonnes of outsized cargo into places a fixed-wing freighter can never reach — islands, disaster zones, unimproved fields, the deck of a Segal hull.
Lift comes from a hybrid of buoyant gas and vectored hybrid-electric thrust, so the airframe trims its own buoyancy as cargo comes off and never needs ballast handling on the ground. The Vector stack holds the corridor, resolves weather, and hovers to discharge — no flight crew, no tower.
Built as standardized fabricated sections — envelope bays, a modular gondola, and interchangeable cargo modules — Cumulus is reconfigured between dry freight, refrigerated, and outsized loads in a single shift.
Air-bridges offshore Segal Habitats (Tide Commons, Atoll) with no port and no runway.
// BASE SPECIFICATIONS
- Span
- 24 m
- Length
- 60 m
- Lift system
- Hybrid buoyant + vectored electric
- Base payload
- 6,000 kg
- Base range
- 1,400 km
- Endurance
- 40 h
- Crew
- 0
Flying today — production slots open by quarter.
// CONFIGURABLE OPTIONS
Mission profiles
- LogisticsHeavy freight, corridor-keeping.
Lift / propulsion
- Full buoyantMaximum static lift, lowest power draw.
- Hybrid-electricBalanced lift + vectored thrust for hover-discharge.
Payload modules
- Dry cargo modulePalletized general freight.
- Refrigerated moduleCold-chain, powered from the drivetrain.
- Outsized cradleOpen cradle for oversized single loads.
Endurance / range tiers
- Standard — 40h
- Extended — 64h
Sensor / comms packages
- Weather + corridor radarDetect-and-avoid, weather routing.
- Logistics datalinkEncrypted cargo + position telemetry.
Autonomy modes
- CrewlessNo onboard crew on a standard sortie — Vector resolves its own airspace.
- SupervisedSingle-command human oversight from the ground.