The Hindenburg was an aberration, destroyed in inferno.
All the other huge dirigibles died in windstorms: Shenandoah, R-100, R-101, Macon, Los Angeles. The Graf Zeppelin and Graf Zeppelin II survived to be broken up for their scrap value.
Doesn’t the seventy year success of the U.S. nonrigid blimp fleet say anything?
Anyway, a balloon is a balloon, regardless of its shape, and is always at the mercy of the winds. Commercial applications, oh please. The Nazis got more use out of the Hindenburg during their 1936 `plebiscite’ when forty-two on board `Ja’ votes for Hitler were counted when there were only forty names on the manifest. Oh well.
It was adverse weather that initiated the end of the Hindenberg too.