I get that the airship was already on its way out by the time airliners became viable for transatlantic travel, but considering that airships were more fuel efficient, and airplanes were very fast, was it just a mater of no one thinking of it, or was there a problem with this concept that made such a design inefficient
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Coz if you did all those things, you’d turn your airship into an airplane. An airship floats rather than flies because it’s lighter than air the same way a boat is lighter than water.
A plane flies because it travels fast enough that the wings generate lift.
They’re two different ways of moving. Airships don’t need wings. Airplanes don’t need to be filled with light gas. Sorta like asking why a car doesn’t have legs.
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