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NikolaiFyodorov  ·  3850 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside The Hindenberg

Great images.

Given the popularity of cruises among the cashed-up retirement set, one wonders why there hasn't been a resurgence in oceanic luxury zeppelin tours. Wikipedia suggests that the Hindenberg disaster was the main factor behind the industry's demise, but that was almost 80 years ago.

Obviously, the speed of fixed-wing aircraft will always trump zeppelins for normal flight, but that shouldn't entail there's no room for them. Imagine swimming in a heated pool surrounded on all sides by glass while floating a kilometre or two high in the sky. That would beat a cruise liner hands down.