at the rear of the airship with resilience provided by the tail fin attachment in practice the lower fins are normally allowed to weathervane with changes in wind direction when the airship is parked free of obstacles thus any weights added could be supported on the rotable landing roller 36 as it rotates with changes in wind direction the reader will see that the tail fin attachment features of this invention can be very advantageous over the prior art and interrelated in that the normally separate and complex structures of engine supports and landing gear are combined with the airship tail fins into a simple multi purpose structure this in turn is resiliently mounted to the airship hull and also conducive to greatly improved ground handling of the rear of the airship stresses to the airship structure and passenger discomfort are deflected by the simple means of tail fin attachment to the airship hull all of these advantages are gained without adding major components with modern lightweight materials and engines tail fins including all the features of the present invention need not weigh any more than past and present tail fins of conventional construction thus leading to an overall weight saving over the present inefficient airships as well as greatly reduced wind resistance while generally more applicable to the construction of semirigid and rigid airships having a rigid framing features of this invention could be used or adapted to nonrigid airships also especially if.