The invention discloses an airship with an inflating skeleton expanding in air, which comprises an airship body 1, a tail wing 2, a tail thruster 3, a connecting element 7, a payload bay 8, a solar cell panel 9, a nose cone 10, a first auxiliary rope 11, an automatic inflating device 12, a second auxiliary rope 13 and two high-altitude balloons 14. The airship is characterized in that a dimensional element of the airship body 1 is skin 4, a longitudinal element is a rigid skeleton 5, and an annular element is an inflating skeleton 6; the inflating skeleton 6 is connected with the rigid skeleton 5 by the connecting element; and the skin 4 is fixedly connected on the outer surface of a grid formed by the rigid skeleton 5 and the inflating skeleton 6. The invention overcomes the defect that a soft bag in a folding state and a connecting part of a pod and other rigid structures are easily torn by strong wind and vortex in the lifting process.