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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Why would an airship have wings? How would one be more aerodynamic.
Lighter than air craft are limited by the insanely huge volume of gas they need to contain. The result is the need for a ginormous balloon to lift even a tiny cabin.
These balloons were shaped to be as aerodynamic as possible, but they still had to have big damn balloons.
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