If an airship were to be built that size today……….Im sure you could NOT have the type of control facilities they had on the great Zeps…….I mean, there was no single “pilot”, but it was more akin to driving a ship at sea…….helmsman, planesman, engine telegraphes etc…….

I’v read that the Brits were offered helium for R-100 and the future R-102…….but they desided to wash their hands of rigids……Hindenburg with helium maybe could have had a couple more years of flight, but didnt the outer cover catch fire and cause her loss?

Interesting that they would have smoking lounges……….