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> If people had continued to develop Zeppelins Not sure I'd want to cross an ocean in a Zeppelin, but I think I'd enjoy a quiet leisurely one week flight safar
by FabHK 5y ago
> If people had continued to develop Zeppelins
Not sure I'd want to cross an ocean in a Zeppelin, but I think I'd enjoy a quiet leisurely one week flight safari over the Serengeti, Ngoro Ngoro, Kruger, and Okavango Delta, for example. Particularly with panorama windows and a lounge and fine restaurant and bar. Pity.
- WalterBright 5y agoA much more difficult problem with Zeppelins is their susceptibility to bad weather.
- kakwa_ 5y agoIIRC, the US navy had 2 rigid airships in the 30ies, Akron and Macon (both filled with Helium). Both crashed after a few years in service, in weather related accidents (with significant loss of lives in Akron case). These two examples are not isolated cases, several zeppelin crashed in similar circumstances. Replacing H with He solves part of the safety issues with zeppelin, but not the main source of accidents. Given how high the susceptible to weather is, due to the inherent size an light weight of zeppelins, I don't think we will see a large zeppelin being built in the foreseeable future, despite all the projects around these.
- FabHK 5y agoWouldn't we have much (!) better weather monitoring and prediction capabilities today, so that one could avoid bad weather (or land in time, preemptively)?