Sergey Brin rumored to be building an airship for humanitarian missions

Re:Sergey Brin rumored to be building an airship for humanit... by kmm on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:23AM (#14424691)

So less than one incident per year, most with a low amount of casualties, on what I assume was quite a big population of airships. And that is without modern technology, because we've made some progress in flame retardant materials

I find that rather makes the case of bringing back hydrogen filled airships.

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Re:Sergey Brin rumored to be building an airship for humanit... by CommieBobDole on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:18PM (#14425677)

> what I assume was quite a big population of airships

That might be a bad assumption. Hard to find numbers for all producers but based on the various lists of airships (links below), it looks like total number of airships produced was probably in the "few hundred" range, and only a small portion of those were in use at any given time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airships_of_the_United...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airs...

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