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Originally Posted by Anthony
That might be limits of VE; with properly designed engines, your fuel requirement will be Drag * Distance / Efficiency, and if you go slowly enough the dirigible is lower. The problem is that 'slowly enough' is really really slow.
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It could have been my methodology With GVB it was easy to design a dirigible and then re-name it, delete the gas bag and replace it with wings while keeping the cargo, engines, fuel and everything else the same.
The dirigible was of course slower and could not travel as far on the same amount of fuel.
I never tried getting from point a to b on the smallest amount of fuel, Fuel is generally not that valuable and if you're trying to amortise your vehicle cost over the same period of time lower speed means fewer trips and higher vehicle cost per trip.