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>Is that true even if it has a large mass from cargo? Nope. It's just plain false. To wit: During its career, Graf Zeppelin had flown almost 1.7 million km (
by romwell 5y ago
>Is that true even if it has a large mass from cargo?
Nope. It's just plain false.
To wit:
During its career, Graf Zeppelin had flown almost 1.7 million km (1,053,391 miles), the first aircraft to fly over a million miles. It made 144 oceanic crossings (143 across the Atlantic, and one of the Pacific), carried 13,110 passengers and 106,700 kg (235,300 lb) of mail and freight. It flew for 17,177 hours (717 days, or nearly two years), without injuring a passenger or crewman.
It never crashed, and was retired at the dawn of WWII.
The huge airships get a bad rep because the only country which could successfully build and operate them was Nazi Germany.
As for dirigibles operated by the US, the UK, and the USSR... yup, none of them actually worked.
Doesn't say anything about the vehicle type.