a hot air airship including an elongate aerodynamic shaped gas envelope carrying a hot air pressure generating device to pressurize the envelope with heated air , tail members at the aft end and a gondola below the envelope and including a load equalizing suspension system for the gondola with a plurality of suspension cables secured within the gas envelope at distributed fore and aft points at each side thereof and decreasing to a fewer number of cables with each cable finally looped beneath the envelope and having a thimble slidable thereon to equally distribute the load to each side of the envelope and the thimble having a securing portion for attaching it to the gondola with a propeller mounted on the gondola .