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So less than one incident per year, most with a low amount of casualties, on what I assume was quite a big population of airships. And that is without modern te

by kmm 9y ago

So less than one incident per year, most with a low amount of casualties, on what I assume was quite a big population of airships. And that is without modern technology, because we've made some progress in flame retardant materials I find that rather makes the case of bringing back hydrogen filled airships.

CommieBobDole 9y ago
> what I assume was quite a big population of airships That might be a bad assumption. Hard to find numbers for all producers but based on the various lists of airships (links below), it looks like total number of airships produced was probably in the "few hundred" range, and only a small portion of those were in use at any given time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airships_of_the_United_States_Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airships_of_the_United... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airs...