Real Lighter-Than-Air Ships

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• See also Zeppelin_on_the_Brain
• See also Technology_In_Columbias_Era

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'HUGE SIZE - But It Still Carried Only 20 Very Cramped Passengers

This (Graf Zeppelin) was one of the few airships that was commercially successful ( and even then its expense was subsidized as a German Government Prestige Object ).

LOOK at how Large it is. All that to carry only 20 passengers in an extremely cramped cabin at the equivalent of SST passenger fares.

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The Buildings used to park and protect these airships were even larger

The hangers were even larger structures, AND WERE REQUIRED for any significant maintenance.

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These Rigid Airships were a dead end ( Airplanes simply zoomed past them in all capabilities ). SO Why would Fink/Comstock make use of these failures IF they supposedly could see the future ? The Fantasy Quantum Floatyness would have opened up so many advances, but retaining the still largely undeveloped and ineffective 'Lighter than Air' designs makes no real sense.

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Except THIS is a concept of future potential airplanes circa 1910

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THIS is the entire passenger space for that Huge 776 foot long Graf Zeppelin

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Good details of what made a proper airship design

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Americas first built, patterned on a crashed WW1 Zeppelin design. First airship to use helium

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Airships weren't things you 'just built' (That's gamewriter stupidity)

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inside of passenger cabin on real airship

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Real size of an airship is apparent

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Real Zeppelin

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Real Zeppelin hangar

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A bit of fun - AN IMPROVEMENT !!!!

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ALMOST A Zeppelin

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Real Zeppelin designing

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Real Zeppelin Hangar

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Complexity Of The Real

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Engine controls of a Zeppelin

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SO BIG - SO FEW PASSENGERS (20) - Tardhood of Fink/Comstock to select this idea

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^^^ It is not like there weren't 1000 good photographs and diagrams (and many websites) to show the gamemakers what REAL airships are SUPPOSED to Look Like !!!

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1920s/Early 1930s (Real World LATER ) - Dirigibles Were Giving Airplanes "A Run For Their Money"  :

• Longer ranged (to cross oceans).

• Luxurious compared to cramped airplanes ( Zeppelins could have SPACE, if not much lifting capacity ).

Competing, At least, until the Hindenburg "went up like a cheap Chinese lantern" at Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. In reality 'safe' Helium was in very short supply and explosive Hydrogen was the only alternative.

Structural problems in bad weather, with their sheer size and clumsiness, was a heavy liability. ( Early Airplanes had similar problems, but fewer extreme complications )

Airplane development later accelerated, and the coming WW2 pushed that technology even further.

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German WW1 Zeppelin

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Passenger area on the Hindenburg

Zeppelin in Rapture ??? DON'T YOU GO THERE !!!

Real things just have a 'Real' look about them

Even this carnival Ferris wheel had more REALISTIC dirigibles than Infinite BS.

Typical Airship shape

Early Dirigible

Zeppelins as a Cultural Phenomenon

1889 ( but look at the size of that exposition hall )

Just before or at start of WW1

Humongus Facilities required ( one reason airplanes succeeded them )

Loading on a giant open field required to handle airships

Late Era Dirigible design (VERY Streamlined)

Huge ground crews were required

Graf Zeppelin - when just flying around the World was a BIG thing ...

Airships were in the public consciousness

1894 times 'Thought' about aerial activities

Early days. Redesign seems to require that dug out to fit bigger one

Actually a 'recorder car' on a Railroad, but looks far more real than those weird 'artists' Zeppelin interiors

Airship technology took decades to become mature ( and in the end lost out to airplanes )

Note - as large as it was, it carried only 20 paying passengers (TRUE)

Passenger Hydroplane - Too bad the gamemakers had chronic 'Zeppelin On The Brain'

They had to build these even larger structures to protect airships

Airships could be moored to specially equipped ships - The dirigible is the USS Los Angeles

Comstock wasn't a very good Prophet, was he ?

Warning, Hydrogen Catches Fire

With Alleged Seeing into the Future ability - Comstock/Fink Were MORONS - 'Zeppelins' were a DEAD END technology.

Technology from the era - primitive - and STILL the work of Talented Individuals

Tech sucked through a Tear doesn't seem to plausibly work with Fink peeking and scribbling a notebook ...

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Inside Of An Actual WW2-Era Blimp - REALITY - Cramped, All That Equipment, Complexity ...

Levine & Co Knew about as much about mechanics of airflight as they did of American Religion

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