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Re:Bring back hydrogen lifting gas by mschuster91 on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:16PM (#28123503)
Even the old Zeppelin airships never had a major issue with strong winds - and these days we have satellites and aircraf-based weather radar.

Storms are no danger for airships.

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Re:Bring back hydrogen lifting gas by abecedarius on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:31PM (#28124307)
That's not how I remember it from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography_of_a... though yes we have much better weather forecasting now.
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Re:Bring back hydrogen lifting gas by romwell on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @12:27AM (#28138035)
You mean, the book that wasn't about a Zeppelin? As in, an aircraft made by the Zeppelin corporation.

The British never learned how to make dirigibles[1], the Americans never learned how to operate them; all non-German airship projects were failures.

That's why Zeppelin became synonymous with "rigid dirigible airship". Because all other projects failed.

[1] R100 was a good design... but it was scrapped because of politics, and never entered service.

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Re:Bring back hydrogen lifting gas by zardo on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:33AM (#28126082)
If you look up the ship dispositions several were torn from their moorings and wrecked in storms. And several crashed in thunderstorms.
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