Guinness World Record is 115 km/h, a blistering 72 miles per hour.
That’s a stripped down machine made for “speed”. Anything made for “work” is going to be considerably slower. Don’t get me wrong, airships were an important stepping stone for aviation but none of them can compete with an airplane for utility.
Let’s put a billion birthday balloons worth of MRI gas in a terminally slow aircraft and inexplicably fly it over sports stadiums.
Modern airship designs can go hundreds of km per hour.
With modern technology we also can contain fire into pockets.
This isn’t much different than criticising a plane because petrol is flammable.
Yeah, no. I’m back at a real computer and thought about this so I went and looked.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-speed-for-an-airship
Guinness World Record is 115 km/h, a blistering 72 miles per hour.
That’s a stripped down machine made for “speed”. Anything made for “work” is going to be considerably slower. Don’t get me wrong, airships were an important stepping stone for aviation but none of them can compete with an airplane for utility.
Wait, what? I’m in my phone at work so searching sucks, can you link one of those fast airships?
The Hindenburg with 90 year old tech had a cruising speed of 122 km/h.
woah! Everyone hold on to your hats!