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Originally Posted by johndallman
The difficulty with this is that airships also require powerful and lightweight engines. The Hindenburg had four lightweight diesels, of 1,200HP each, more powerful than most aircraft engines of the period.
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Shhhhhh, don't tell the players that, maybe they won't find out... :-)
That is a good point, I did not know that about airship engines. I assumed that you could get away with more, less powerful engines because the airship was kept aloft by gas. Hmmm, I wonder if there is a way around this problem to still make large piston aircraft unviable or at least less desirable?