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Aircraft today are so safe because we had decades of improvements in both engineering and safety regulations. I am adamant that we could improve reliability and
by evrimoztamur 4y ago
Aircraft today are so safe because we had decades of improvements in both engineering and safety regulations. I am adamant that we could improve reliability and reduce potential damage in accidents so as long as we apply the same principles to airships.
- LarryMullins 4y agoAircraft survive because they're mechanically reliable, and airships could also be made mechanically reliable. But aircraft also survive because they're reasonably robust in adverse environmental conditions. Airships aren't and never will be, because they have to be built very large and very light or they don't work at all. Furthermore airships are slower and harder to hanger, which makes it even harder for airships to avoid bad weather. Better weather forecasting could help some, but keeping airships out of storms really is of the utmost importance.