It’s a pity in a way that these things became discredited and failed largely due to this incident. Old newsreel footage and a few movies show what had to be an amazing and pleasurable travel experience, floating along in the equivalent of an airborne ocean liner. I’d love to have experienced it, well, other than the final flight of the Hindenberg.
It is hard to say whether dirigible travel would have been commercially viable, due to the slow speeds involved.
They seem to be making a comeback. They are all the rage in domestic surveillance.
“It’s a pity in a way that these things became discredited and failed largely due to this incident.”
I remember reading that the German air ships used the more flammable hydrogen because the only known source of helium was.....Texas, and the US refused to allow sales to the NAZI government.
“Old newsreel footage and a few movies show what had to be an amazing and pleasurable travel experience, floating along in the equivalent of an airborne ocean liner. I’d love to have experienced it, well, other than the final flight of the Hindenberg.”
Another age. Long gone never to return.
Now if we want to fly we have to endure the TSA and hope we aren’t dragged off the plane before takeoff just so we can endure the comfort and grace that are modern “flight attendants”.
Top of the Empire State Building was originally supposed to be used to moor dirigibles. They just couldn’t work out how to board and disembark passengers.....on to Plan B