Abstract: Based on NACA airfoils,a new type of tandem buoyancy-lifting airships with both higher utility and economy efficiency was developed.With numerical simulations aerodynamic and configuration design for buoyancy-lifting airships was investigated and buoyancy-lifting characteristics were evaluated and analyzed synthetically.It shows that a tandem buoyancy-lifting airship has considerable volume efficiency.Its lift-drag ratio is increased 50% than single wing resulted from block of airflow by posterior flying-wing and speedup of airflow in overlay field.Its deadweight can be decreased and payload is increased as velocity is higher than 30 m·s^-1.At the same time,chord wise size of tandem airship is comparatively small so that surface tension of skin material can be reduced availably.It provides a wider scope for skin flexible material selection of high altitude aircrafts.

Key words: airship, buoyancy-lifting, tandem, configuration, numerical simulation