Re:Bring back hydrogen lifting gas
by abecedarius on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:31PM
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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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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.