>>1728172>Airships fell out of favor for several reasons.They fell out of favor because of that balloon fundamentally losses to aircraft as transport system.
When people see the airship they think: "free lift!!". Thing is aircrafts have aerodynamic quality of around 20, they spend very small part of propulsion produce lift. And to have buoyancy lift you need huge bag of gas that produces DRAG. And DRAG is where fuel expenditure of flying goers.
Average fuel efficiency US passenger aviation is 32.5 g of fuel per km*passenger.
Hindenburg had 80 g of fuel per km*passenger...
Also Hindenburg was 6 times slower than modern aircraft's it mean that it can carry 6 less passengers per amount of time , it amortization costs are 6 time more per passenger*km traveled. And amortization costs constitute significant costs to the air travel expenses. Roughly its 33% fuel, 33% aircraft amortization, 33% everything else.
So you have system that 3 times more expensive and travels days instead of hours. Market competition? NGMI
