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While that maybe true, I struggle to see how anyone will be able to market a hydrogen airship against this image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons

• notahacker 4y ago
  I've see quite a few images of heavier than air aircraft in lots of tiny pieces. One of my old colleagues starred in a popular TV series dedicated to air crash investigations, and he was working for a trade publication promoting flight...
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• bewo001 4y ago
  I agree. It is curious that pictures like this https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/42fa4e0d62be371a522399130a5a0d63 https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/42fa4e0d62be371a52239... (Tenerife Airport disaster w 583 fatalities) did not have that impact on using passenger jets. It just irks me that every time wants to do something useful with a bigger quantity of hydrogen, somebody will come and say 'but Hindenburg!'
• marvin 4y ago
  It's just a meme at this point, and has been for 60 years. Fixed-wing airliners become a gargantuous fireball of death if they ever happen to hit the ground after takeoff, which they have occasionally done with someone filming the disaster. You can of course debate the relative safety, but for eye-catching disastrous video material the world of aviation has a thousand times more than airships.
  • Qem 4y ago
    The one most iconic for me was the Concorde crash.