>>1922239wrong. zeppelins at the time were much faster than ships.
>>1922272yes a zeppelin requires much less fuel but is of course much slower than a plane. but then again, travelling in a zeppelin is like staying at a hotel in the air, you can walk around freely, enjoy the epic view, eat at the restaurant, sleep in your room etc. similar to a ship. and also fast passenger planes didnt exist at the time. you can compare traveling by ship and by zeppelin but you cant compare zeppelins and planes.
>>1921765>And if the US/UK can't make and operate airships, then nobody can.this sounds almost like a joke. you said it yourself, the only successful american airship was a german-built zeppelin. germany was the place of origin and france, england, and the usa merely copied. and badly so. they couldnt recreate rigid airships by themselves at all and even when they got the blueprints after ww1 as part of war reparations they still couldnt copy them. there were no guidebooks or anything on how to operate a zeppelin, german pilots taught each other orally.
