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A comment on Ask HN: Zeppelin/Airship for urban transportation: why is no one using them yet?.

Re:Ask HN: Zeppelin/Airship for urban transportation: why is... by faruq on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:55AM (#6205675)
Zeppelin isn't safe, slow and not effective for mass passenger transport. Zeppelin can't hold many people in big city scale and/or short hop. Did you know how many passenger that can loaded on?

I prefer metro.

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Re:Ask HN: Zeppelin/Airship for urban transportation: why is... by seren on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:10AM (#6205765)
Recent article on Airship used for sightseeing :

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/05/travel/paris-zeppelin-airs...

Compare the volume of the Zeppelin vs the number of passenger. If I remember correctly, it only take 7 passengers and it is rather slow to land and take off. So you have a lot of wasted time.

This really does not scale well when talking about big conurbations with millions of people.

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