Cargo airships could be big

·Eli Dourado··

UPDATE 2024-10-14: I got one assumption in this post wrong. Operating margins for airships could be much higher than I thought. I’m pleased to say that a new company formed around this insight. More info here.A lot of people think that the Zeppelin era ended merely because the Hindenburg erupted into flames in front of newsreel cameras, killing 35 of the 97 people on board in the inferno.While the 1937 accident certainly didn’t help, the writing was already on the wall for passenger airship serv...

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