There's a nice slideshow here.
Up, up and away: Airships, the next generation - CNN.com: "LONDON, England (CNN) -- 'Oh, the humanity.' When these three words were uttered by aghast radio journalist Herbert Morrison -- as the LZ129 Hindenburg airship crashed and burst into flames in New Jersey in 1937 -- it was seen as the end of airships. The other remaining Zeppelin-class dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin II, was destroyed by the Nazi administration who felt the materials could be put to better use with more conventional aircraft.
But, 70 years on, could the Hindenburg-style airship be experiencing a renaissance?"
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Nevil Shute's autobiography "Slide-Rule" covered his time working on an airship competition the British government sponsored in the 1920's. Interesting reading about airship design.
Shute was a good writer. Wonder how many people these days have even heard of him?
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