Sky cruise Hotel

[schuylergrace]

If you will stop the video at the 0.55 mark you will see there has been an attempt to add most of the avionic surfaces and functions. Small flaps on the wings, ailerons and rudder on the vertical and horizontal stabilizer, No slats of the forward surface of the wing. What I was seeing though was the lip service paid to a biplane design of the wings. I say this because they are too close together relative to the aircraft using the term loosely, to me that looked more to be just a place to mount more engine pods rather than offer any real lift surface. If they are just going to rely on brute force to get the behemoth off the ground with those short stubby wings then they are going to need a 50 mile long runway or the lower pods are going to have to have directional thrust control probably both.
The aircraft carrier in the Marvel comics movie would have a better chance of getting airborne than that thing IMO.

What I was referring to by "elevators" was the use of external, people-moving elevators on the "plane," not the control surfaces. I guess they didn't want to take up space inside, so they just hung them on the exterior. Of course, that wouldn't make the craft's drag much worse than all the other stuff hanging out there in the breeze.