OP article makes a compelling argument that there's an untapped market for faster-than-shipping and cheaper-than-air freight: > The new airships can carry heav

OP article makes a compelling argument that there's an untapped market for faster-than-shipping and cheaper-than-air freight: > The new airships can carry heavier loads farther and cheaper than helicopters can, with lower emissions than fixed-wing aircraft—potentially zero emissions, if the ships are powered by hydrogen fuel cells. > To Buerge the aerospace engineer, helicopters seem like a reasonable analogy to the new airships. “I don’t ride on a helicopter with any regularity, and you probably don’t either,” he says. But even though the civilian helicopter market isn’t near the size of the commercial aircraft industry, “I wouldn’t call helicopters an unsuccessful technology, or a technology that doesn’t exist in a serious way.”