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People laugh at airships due to accidents in the 1920's, forgetting that technology moves on.
Biplanes crash and burn too.
Modern materials make airships stronger and safer and Helium more practical. They are also very fuel efficient, which counts for a lot more now than it did thern.
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There was an abundant supply of helium... but the US government sold it all off ridiculously cheap so we could all do funny voices.
I'm concerned by that fuel consumption and paltry payload... 1200kg doesn't seem a lot for something of that bulk, which consumes 3 tonnes of fuel per day.
The military potential of airships is staggering, both as a transport craft and as a strategic weapons platform (mind you that doesn't necessarily mean NUCLEAR platform). Airships are also (AFAIK) the only real aircraft technology in which efficiency/costs, payload, and size remain relatively proportional (larger airplanes with increased payload capacity cost disproportionately more and are disproportionally less efficient as the size increases).
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
For info, Cardington Hangars (as seen in a lot of the clips) were used to film scenes for various Batman files, amongst others.
And, a mate went to a sports centre in Cardington to watch Bruce Dickinson train fencing there.
Oh, and he "His interests at Oundle [public school] were often military; he co-founded the school wargames society with Mike Jordan". That I didn't know
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