I don’t think airships are as bad as it may seem today. Perceived badness is a lot due to lack of networking effects which airplanes enjoy today. There is infra

I don’t think airships are as bad as it may seem today. Perceived badness is a lot due to lack of networking effects which airplanes enjoy today. There is infrastructure for landing airplanes everywhere. If the same had existed for airships I he economics and practicality of using airships would have been very different. Many of the problems that existed with airships in the past are solved today. Weather forecasts are much better today. Elevation can be controlled better with compressors which can expand and reduce volume of ballonets on demand combined with propellers which can be more fine controlled and directed to cause lift of descent. Not to mention access to a plethora of advanced materials they did not have in the 30s. Most importantly we are in a green shift. When airplanes took over nobody cared about CO2 emissions. Airships can realistically run using electric motors driven by batteries or preferably fuel cells. For airships volume matters less, so you can more easily have large quantities of hydrogen in the ship. In theory you could use hydrogen as lifting gas and fuel. The dangers of hydrogen is somewhat overrated. Hindenburg was about paint coating more than hydrogen. We also got much better techniques for handling it yet today. You can have an outer shell of a different gas e.g. During WW1 German airships got frequently fired on without causing any them much damage. They had to fly close with incendiary grenades to take them out.