Can they become applicable for the air equivalent of trailer car? Can they help people flight in slow but somewhat more comfy travels? Or is it a pipedream?
>>2065173 Nah, don't think that they will ever enter into any use except tourist excursions. They're just too slow. I'd like to ride one though. I always end up missing my local hot air ballon festival
>>2065450 They should make it in a military budget version. That might make it applicable for future civilian use as a civvie version or a second hand military equipment,like warbirds or even hueys..
>>2065173 the french are making a fret airship, mostly for canada, to transport mostly lumbering in remote area, so there's a future for airship fret it's also interesting because you barely need any infrastructure for transport itself so you don't have to buy a ton of separate properties to lay rail like train also there's multiple prototypes of anchored airships with turbines that can be an alternative to wind turbines that need a gorillion tons of aluminium (pollute to make and recycle) and the other gorillion of tons on concrete necessary so your aluminium pillar stay in place (which destroy soils) so unironically airships are the future but it's too inefficient sizewise to be used as a trailer car
>>2073342 >I think of the early airships America had only one survived. Yes, because USS Los Angeles was built by Zeppelin themselves. All the others (Shenandoah, Akron, Macon) were poorly-made copies, with various design flaws.