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My favorite airship is the Bodensee. Also the first rigid airship ever built with the tear-drop shape.
Really a shame how we, 100 years later, cannot have a similar-sized ship. It is much smaller than a Hindenburg. And I think with Mylar, carbon-fibre/aluminium construction and 3 vectoring engines and other modern materials, we can make a helium-airship that can carry at least as much as a hydrogen airship of 100 years ago. It's all about making them as light and as strong as possible. The vectoring engines are one of the biggest improvements as it means the airship can take off and land like a helicopter and only needs a fraction of the ground grew. Think about it, the biggest problem with the airships of the past came with landing, and this problem increased with size. Today this problem simply no longer exists, with fly-by-wire vectoring engines.
