Re: Why Dirigibles?
What about money, esp. by government subsidies?
Airships require a lot of infrastructure - mooring masts, huge hangars, helium or hydrogen refineries and tanks etc -, that also needs a lot of workers.
So, when the mooring mast magnates and the gasbag patcher union team up and start whining to the politicians, sweet government money is shoved over to the industry.
Add a few spectacular plane crashes - overblown by the mooring mast magnate friendly press - will kill the interest of the public in this dangerous deathtraps.
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